unctuous

• Rousseau's letter on the theatre, it need hardly be said, is meant to be an appeal to the common sense and judgment of his readers, and not conceived in the ecclesiastical tone of unctuous anathema and fulgurant menace. —  Rousseau
• "Do you think," said the Wali, with his twitching moustache and curious, sleek, unctuous smile, "do you think you would know your friend again?" —  The Life of Sir Richard Burton
• He came up close to me, a middle-aged creature, oleaginous in person and unctuous in manner, and putting his hand on my arm inquired, "Are you in trouble, little girl?" and then answering his own question, he continued: "I know you are. —  Madeleine An Autobiography
• High and low, they are of an unctuous texture. — —  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• One cannot help sympathising with Alfred de Musset's impatient interruption of George Sand's unctuous lecturing reported in his brother's book — "My dear, you speak so often of chastity that it becomes indecent." —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician

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