Sentence example with the word 'unctuousness'

unctuousness

Definition n. smug self-serving earnestness

Last update: October 11, 2015


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Queequeg believed strongly in anointing his boat, and one morning not long after the German ship Jungfrau disappeared, took more than customary pains in that occupation; crawling under its bottom, where it hung over the side, and rubbing in the unctuousness as though diligently seeking to insure a crop of hair from the craft's bald keel.   [Please select]

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Beside it Claude's has a suspicion, at least, of unctuousness.   [Please select]

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He was nervous and impatient; at times he dropped the unctuousness of his manner toward her, and she found herself looking into a pair of cold blue eyes which terrified her.   [Please select]

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unctuously - unctuousness - uncultivated