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 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.
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 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.
6 One talked of her son, and her voice was unctuous with pride.
7 In superior circles, however, introduction becomes more elaborate, more flattering, more unctuous .
8 I hate his supercilious manner, his superior tone, and his unctuous bearing.
9 I spoke with unctuous satisfaction, for I really expected him to comprehend.
10 He straightened up and gave the three of us an unctuous smile.
11 He's in his mid-fifties, sleek and well groomed, charismatic but not unctuous .
12 The baked filling was thick, creamy, and unctuous , reminiscent of cream pie.
13 The unctuous axioms of social morality are only used to cloak her disappointment.
14 General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile.
15 The picture brought up to Keith the fat and unctuous Rimmon.
16 We sample each and the unctuous braised beef cheek ultimately wins the day.
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