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Significats de unctuous en anglès

Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech.

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Examples for "oily"
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The sea looked almost solid, like churning, oily lumps rather than water.
Jacinto's Remnant
2
The air shimmered with oily heat as the B-17's engines built power.
The Wolf’s Hour
3
The castor oil seed resembles in chemical composition the other oily seeds.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in...
4
The meal proceeded in silence save for an oily sarcasm from Henson.
The Crimson Blind
5
The most effective are omega-3 fats, which occur naturally in oily fish.
The Irish Times
1
Run to the buttery; his goatship will be wanting butter and cheese.
A clash of kings
2
This recipe uses cornflour and icing sugar to create the buttery texture.
The South African
3
Soon, the first of the scholars came rapping upon the buttery hatch.
Caleb's crossing
4
I saw heaps and heaps of it in Farmer Green's buttery yesterday.
The Tale of Betsy Butterfly / Tuck-Me-In Tales
5
You're thinking of those amazing rashers that don't shrink, with buttery toast.
The Irish Times
1
Residents said the treated water is clear but a bit soapy tasting.
Reuters
2
A few minutes later Kote returned with a bucket of soapy water.
The Name of the Wind
3
The statuette went to Jane Fonda for the somewhat soapy Coming Home.
The Irish Times
4
Wash the aprons in hot, soapy water; boil, rinse, and blue slightly.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
5
The bubble felt hard and slippery, like a glass in soapy water.
Night gate
1
But Russia's embrace of Greece has so far been less than fulsome.
Reuters
2
Reviewers, impressed by the weight of research and writing, have been fulsome.
The Guardian
3
North, back on the left wing, earned fulsome praise from Jim Mallinder.
The Guardian
4
The fulsome flatterer of former times has degenerated into a chronic fault-finder.
The Jericho Road
5
Mrs Moffatt was talking about her, gushing over her, in fulsome phrases.
Flaming June
1
Actually, those two pretty much set off my smarmy meter twenty-four, seven.
Touching darkness
2
Instead, on the dais, he wore his usual expression of smarmy piety.
Wired
3
I need that file. Davis blew Ana a smarmy kiss and obeyed.
Deadly little secrets
4
Their responses to widespread, serious criticism can be grandiose and smarmy.
Wired
5
It also explained the smarmy director, who'd given me a few creepy looks.
Gentlemen prefer succubi
1
Here, we report the genome sequence of the oleaginous A. oryzae BCC7051.
Pubmed
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However, these mutants still have a lower TAG productivity than wild-type oleaginous microalgae.
Pubmed
3
The result was the same with oleaginous seeds: such as castor-oil and sunflower.
Social Life in the Insect World
4
That was what caused that greasy, oleaginous appearance of the wound.
Guy Garrick
5
He was much more the apostle than the oleaginous counter of theological paperclips.
The Guardian
Ús de unctuous en anglès
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Varys slithered to his feet, smiling in that unctuous way he had.
A clash of kings
2
John Michael Higgins is all unctuous anxiety as Evan's chief of staff.
Reuters
3
Canadian Shakespearean actor Douglas Rain won the role with neutral, unctuous tones.
Wired
4
But such a man is all the more bound to be unctuous.
Overland: A Novel
5
Enough, that a very unctuous business was made of it that morning.
Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
6
One talked of her son, and her voice was unctuous with pride.
Half Portions
7
In superior circles, however, introduction becomes more elaborate, more flattering, more unctuous.
The Hohenzollerns in America / With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and...
8
I hate his supercilious manner, his superior tone, and his unctuous bearing.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
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I spoke with unctuous satisfaction, for I really expected him to comprehend.
From a Girl's Point of View
10
He straightened up and gave the three of us an unctuous smile.
Sister Mine
11
He's in his mid-fifties, sleek and well groomed, charismatic but not unctuous.
The nobodies album
12
The baked filling was thick, creamy, and unctuous, reminiscent of cream pie.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
13
The unctuous axioms of social morality are only used to cloak her disappointment.
Letters of Two Brides
14
General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile.
Catch-22
15
The picture brought up to Keith the fat and unctuous Rimmon.
Gordon Keith
16
We sample each and the unctuous braised beef cheek ultimately wins the day.
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