Comparative for covered with or containing grease
“Its heavy arms clicked and whirred, greasy pistons pumping.”
Comparative for containing or cooked with too much oil or fat
“Follow a greasy meal with a cup of hot yerba mate or green tea to help digestion.”
Comparative for having a slippery surface
“I would almost have gotten clean away if I hadn't slipped on the greasy ground and come crashing down.”
Comparative for having a shiny surface due to a covering of (greasy) liquid
“Do you want greasy blue smudges coming through your new Andy Warhol print?”
Comparative for excessively pleasant or flattering in an insincere manner
“Butts is a used car salesman, a simpering hypocrite, a freelance charmer, and a greasy sycophant.”
Comparative for devious, or suggestive of being smarmily devious, in nature
“With that mustache you had, you gave the appearance of a greasy salesman.”
Comparative for resembling cream, grease or oil in consistency
Comparative for covered or marked with an unclean substance
Comparative for covered by or resembling slime
(of a terrain) Comparative for swampy and full of mud
Comparative for evasive or deliberately ambiguous in nature
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