oleaginous
IPA: oʊɫiˈædʒʌnʌs
adjective
- Oily, greasy.
- (of manner or speech) Falsely or affectedly earnest; persuasively suave.
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Examples of "oleaginous" in Sentences
- This kind of oleaginous 'repentence' is a growth industry for the '00s.
- Boswell, he points out, was vain and lecherous, "oleaginous" in manner and
- To avoid abrasions most all Scandinavian operators use some kind of oleaginous substance.
- Rubbish on the floor, a meal on a table, a crisp french fry dipped in still-glistening oleaginous ketchup.
- As physicians we have long relinquished autonomy in the field of science and medicine to the oleaginous interests of industry.
- Funny, isn't it, how Coulter drops ridiculous constructions like "oleaginous", but doesn't seem to know the meaning of the word "specious".
- Amanda Platell, in the Daily Mail, wrote of the "tawdry, inexorable decline of Hugh Grant" whom she described as an "oleaginous, womanising lounge lizard".
- Joining her was mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel, with a delightfully oleaginous rendering of Clytemnestra that brought the bloodletting adulteress to new heights of malevolence.
- New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote, "If the word oleaginous didn't exist, someone would have to invent it to describe Rahm Emanuel." called him "arrogant, rash and power hungry" and described how he once "sent a rotting fish to a former coworker with whom he had parted ways."
- And just think, if we ever achieve proper reform and a genuinely proportional system, we might see the splitting apart of the big old parties and perhaps a genuinely progressive, genuinely viable alternative to the preening, self serving, oleaginous Labour Party, which has failed everyone in this country who claims a leftist or liberal bent, will emerge.
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