oleaginous

• Pompous, oleaginous, precious, self-absorbed, phony, grammatically challenged, unjustifiably self-absolving, shallow drivel. —  Spectator Live
• 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."
• The more arctic regions produce even the smallest kinds of fruit with difficulty; and the more equatorial, in coarse, oleaginous, or over-luscious masses 15. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• First, half a pound of pudding, minus anything oleaginous, and a basin of water was administered to each. —  In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
• Consequently, there is no doubt of fossil coal being a substance of vegetable production, however animal substances also may have contributed in forming this collection of oleaginous or inflammable matter Having thus ascertained the state of a former earth, in which plants and animals had lived, as well as the gradual production of the present earth, composed from the materials of a former world, it must be evident, that here are two operations which are necessarily consecutive. —  Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4)

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