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Meanings of smarminess in English
Catalan
untuositat Spanish
exagerado elogio Synonyms
Examples for "unction"
Examples for "unction"
1
In that time I must receive the extreme unction of the Church.
2
A person thus set apart receives the unction of the Holy One.
3
The President pronounced the last sentence with oratorical unction, and around him.
4
And I was certainly not the last to begin-especially at extreme unction.
5
You can put more savor and unction into it than I can.
1
From the beginning, she had ignored a certain oiliness in his voice.
2
For the first week without bathing, the skin's oiliness remained constant.
3
If correctly mixed, the emulsion, on cooling, will adhere without oiliness to glass.
4
The oiliness, the public theft, the cowardice, the welter of sin!
5
Steward, for looking us up, the Jew took up the idea with insulting oiliness.
1
At Strouther and Streckfuss's, Mr. Strouther came up and said with reeking unctuousness:
2
A mixture of creepy unctuousness and childhood regression to Mummy.
3
In a flat voice stripped of its former unctuousness, he said, "Is this really necessary?"
4
He smiled as he spoke with the unctuousness of a villain administering poison in a bouquet of roses.
5
Brother Baker's unctuousness angered Bud Perkins.
1
Capital berated Bonbright; labor was inclined to fulsomeness.
2
If this were flattery, tone and manner robbed it of fulsomeness, rendered it subtle beyond the coarser perceptions of the man.
3
The Chancellor's sense of proportion is curious, but may perhaps be condoned as of a piece with the fulsomeness of the day.
4
He was savouring to its utmost fulsomeness the supremest joy which animal man can ever know-thejoy of looking on a fallen enemy.
5
Cecil Rhodes, of course, had declared himself officially in accord with the High Commissioner, and even praised him to a degree of fulsomeness.
Usage of smarminess in English
1
And so, men, drive your wives, beat them out of their self-consciousness and their soft smarminess and good, lovely idea of themselves.
2
They are stalked by a jigsaw-faced man who calls himself Stuntman Mike, played with grizzled smarminess by John Carpenter veteran Kurt Russell.
3
The thought of being subjected to his smarminess was simply too much to bear -and I lived here when Giuliani was mayor.
4
We have a vice of love, of softness and sweetness and smarminess and intimacy and promiscuous kindness and all that sort of thing.
5
'Ah, but you're not familiar with my background, James, my curriculum vitae.' The smile and the smarminess vanished.
Frequent collocations
Smarminess through the time