Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech.
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Examples for "oily"
Examples for "oily"
1The sea looked almost solid, like churning, oily lumps rather than water.
2The air shimmered with oily heat as the B-17's engines built power.
3The castor oil seed resembles in chemical composition the other oily seeds.
4The meal proceeded in silence save for an oily sarcasm from Henson.
5The most effective are omega-3 fats, which occur naturally in oily fish.
1Run to the buttery; his goatship will be wanting butter and cheese.
2This recipe uses cornflour and icing sugar to create the buttery texture.
3Soon, the first of the scholars came rapping upon the buttery hatch.
4I saw heaps and heaps of it in Farmer Green's buttery yesterday.
5You're thinking of those amazing rashers that don't shrink, with buttery toast.
1Residents said the treated water is clear but a bit soapy tasting.
2A few minutes later Kote returned with a bucket of soapy water.
3The statuette went to Jane Fonda for the somewhat soapy Coming Home.
4Wash the aprons in hot, soapy water; boil, rinse, and blue slightly.
5The bubble felt hard and slippery, like a glass in soapy water.
1Varys slithered to his feet, smiling in that unctuous way he had.
2John Michael Higgins is all unctuous anxiety as Evan's chief of staff.
3Canadian Shakespearean actor Douglas Rain won the role with neutral, unctuous tones.
4But such a man is all the more bound to be unctuous.
5Enough, that a very unctuous business was made of it that morning.
1But Russia's embrace of Greece has so far been less than fulsome.
2Reviewers, impressed by the weight of research and writing, have been fulsome.
3North, back on the left wing, earned fulsome praise from Jim Mallinder.
4The fulsome flatterer of former times has degenerated into a chronic fault-finder.
5Mrs Moffatt was talking about her, gushing over her, in fulsome phrases.
1Here, we report the genome sequence of the oleaginous A. oryzae BCC7051.
2However, these mutants still have a lower TAG productivity than wild-type oleaginous microalgae.
3The result was the same with oleaginous seeds: such as castor-oil and sunflower.
4That was what caused that greasy, oleaginous appearance of the wound.
5He was much more the apostle than the oleaginous counter of theological paperclips.
1Actually, those two pretty much set off my smarmy meter twenty-four, seven.
2Instead, on the dais, he wore his usual expression of smarmy piety.
3I need that file. Davis blew Ana a smarmy kiss and obeyed.
4Their responses to widespread, serious criticism can be grandiose and smarmy.
5It also explained the smarmy director, who'd given me a few creepy looks.
6The smarmy prosecution QC came across and firmly shook my hand.
7Even on this form you're more than a match for Welsby's smarmy gibberish.
8Dennis scowled, then forced his face back into its usual smarmy good nature.
9Jacobs was smarmy, but he was actually quite a nice guy.
10He represents the kind of smarmy upper-middle-classness I don't like, really.
11It is fuel for the smart-arse fire of a smarmy brat.
12Bryan cuts a smarmy promo about being smarter than everyone else.
13The guy was as smarmy as a snake-oil salesman from Matamoros.
14What a fool he'd been, falling into the smarmy guy's trap.
15Corbin is actually fantastic in this role, his delivery is smarmy and on point.
16It comes bound in an annoying leather case that smacks of smarmy corporate importance.
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