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Oleaginous

adjective

Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech. Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous. "Gave him a fulsome introduction" , "An oily sycophantic press agent" , "Oleaginous hypocrisy" , "Smarmy self-importance" , "The unctuous Uriah Heep" , "Soapy compliments"

Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil. Synonyms: greasy, oily, sebaceous. "Oily fried potatoes" , "Oleaginous seeds"

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"Oleaginous" Quotes from Famous Books

... made for tawdry accessories and repeated coats of shiny oleaginous paint—very disagreeable where it has peeled off and almost more so where it has not. What work could stand against such treatment as the Valsesian terra-cotta figures have had to put up with? Take the Venus of Milo; let her be done in terra-cotta, and have run, not much, but still ...

— Essays on Life, Art and Science • Samuel Butler

... are a Fruit very oleaginous, but the Oil is very closely united with the other Principles, that it requires a great deal of Labour to separate it, and to make it pure. The three common Ways to extract Oils, are by Distillation, Expression, and Decoction; we reject the first ...

— The Natural History of Chocolate • D. de Quelus

Words linked to "Oleaginous" : fat, fatty, insincere