| 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. |
| 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. |
| Pete is one of those tiresome, unctuous types who thinks he's a wit and is half-right. |
| 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. |
