Smug self-serving earnestness.
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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 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 We catch his gusts of panic, his disease of nosing, his greasiness .
2 The greasiness and electrically charged quality of the air seemed to increase sharply.
3 Pizza The piquancy of Salad Cream cuts through any greasiness of the cheese.
4 A certain greasiness about the fellow increased my dislike.
5 Cathy stridently nominates greasiness as a category, as well as topping distribution and slice segmentation.
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 .
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.
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 .
6 Simply pick one option depending on your care factor that day and overall skin oiliness .
7 Sometimes the spittle has a peculiar oiliness that results in a certain slipperiness of statement.
8 She wiped off her soggy shoes and tried to clean that clinging oiliness from her hands.
9 It will settle and the oiliness will disappear.
10 Whether yours threatens dryness, oiliness , dehydration or dullness, there are products that can comfort it into acquiescence.
11 He has a fine oiliness in his disposition, which smooths the waves of passion as they rise.
12 I've tried everything over the years to balance my scalp and reduce the oiliness in my hair.
13 Surely, he thought, there was a suggestion of oiliness about it, and-thenin a moment he knew.
14 No white cast or weird oiliness .
15 Carefully take off the skin, as its oiliness will give the fish a strong and disagreeable taste when cooked.
16 Her father's oiliness offended her.
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