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How to use unctuous in a sentence

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Pete is one of those tiresome, unctuous types who thinks he's a wit and is half-right.
Then you continue on in your hatefully superior day, you unctuous benevolent light shedder.
You can tell his character is gonna be a straight arrow when he refuses to let an unctuous lobbyist buy him breakfast.
He is as unctuous as they come and as slippery and lethal as a herd of rattlers in a barrel of oil.
It would be impossible to walk by without succumbing to a tub of mellow, unctuous olives, or a modestly priced, sit-down lunch.
Bob, by the way, only casually mentioned his war record, though there is still something unctuous even about that.
He would seem to be offering a kind of antinomian horology at worst, at best an unctuous pragmatism of local mores.
The slowly braised veal shank fell off the bone, its marrow, creamily unctuous.
My first meal was a dainty foie gras burger, served in all its unctuous richness, without burger meat, on a toasted, tea-sandwich-size bun.
It was an emotional speech, but a delightfully graceful, rather than unctuous and overblown, one.
Onion rarebit Of all the hot snacks I knock together, it is this unctuous mix of onions, thick toast and melted cheese that pleases most.
Preserved Whole Goose Foie Gras is firmer and less unctuous than the Semi-preserved foie gras.
It needs moisturizing and nourishing treatments and soft, unctuous and protective textures.
Once lightened, the candle transforms itself into an unctuous body oil of massage with a sensual and greedy perfume.
Harmonious mix of the pear and the iced chestnut for this sweet and unctuous jam with wintry flavours.
Natural graphite is unctuous and relatively soft with a hardness of 1-2 on the Mohs scale.
In addition to being certified organic and equitable, their products contain no soy lecithin, making them even more unctuous.
Taste our chocolates as quickly as possible after their purchase: the quicker they are consumed after making, the more unctuous and fondant.
Somehow Chevrier managed to sear the foie gras in a way to produce simultaneously a crusty exterior and an unctuous delicate rare interior.
He gave a speech on his new charity work, and it was one of those smooth unctuous bits of California blarney no one could make with a straight face today.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A naive, unctuous lout of a Devil with straightforward Tempter's proclivities.
But pompholyx is fatty, unctuous, white and light enough to fly in the air.
Mr. tweedle had come to the desk and offered his hand in his usual conciliatory and unctuous manner.
Besides, the chevalier was as unctuous with the abbe as he was paternal with the grisettes.
They take the sebaceous or unctuous secretion from the coat.
The priest, essaying his unctuous voice, tried to set things right.
First they listened to an unctuous grace from Friar Tuck, and then Robin lifted high a tankard of ale.
A voice, which was unctuous and insinuative, emanated from the figure.
She laughed a rich, unctuous laugh, and stretched her hands to the blaze.
Martin Poyser's large person shook with his silent unctuous laugh.
All this came out of her like an unctuous trickle of some acrid oil.
The frame was of poles and willow twigs, on which were stretched five elk and buffalo hides, sewed together with sinews, and the seams payed with unctuous mud.
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