Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech.
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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 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 .
5 It also explained the smarmy director, who'd given me a few creepy looks.
1 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.
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.
6 I made no fulsome protestations, and did not once allude to suicide.
7 Gabinius followed him into his writing-room, and there said with fulsome smoothness:
8 He did not embarrass me with fulsome praise of my strategic genius.
9 She had not dared express her full appreciation, lest she seem fulsome .
10 So a fulsome apology can be interpreted as a totally insincere one!
11 Let us strike tomorrow with the full and fulsome courage of our convictions.
12 Only a power-hungry zealot could accept the fulsome ritual as a tolerable exchange.
13 He immediately became almost fulsome in his effort to detain me.
14 To praise him directly might seem sycophantish and fulsome to the Prince himself.
15 None of the fulsome praise, the superlative, necessary definition given to lesser performers.
16 He was fantastic. Everton manager Roberto Martinez was also fulsome in his praise.
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