Definitionadj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Last update: July 26, 2015
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He speaks in an unctuous tone. [adjective]
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Its Strong Points: Its unctuous texture gives back your skin its soft and supple feel: your face is soothed instantly. [adjective]
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A soft, unctuous form results on treating carbon with ash or silica in special furnaces, and this gives the so-called "deflocculated" variety when treated with gallotannic acid. [Please select]
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They are generally unctuous, and sometimes so small as not to weigh more than an ounce. [Please select]
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Martin Poyser's large person shook with his silent unctuous laugh; he turned toward Mrs. [Please select]
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Let us no longer have almond oil "essential," almond oil "unctuous," and the like. [Please select]
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A voice, which was unctuous and insinuative, emanated from the figure. [Please select]
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In the end Oncle Jazon said with unctuous self-satisfaction: "Accidents will happen." [Please select]
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Reilly's frequent unctuous quotations his first real taste for Horace. [Please select]
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