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