oily-looking

He wore only a soiled T-shirt and a pair of oily-looking jeans.

Raven V.C Andrews 2011

He wore only a soiled T-shirt and a pair of oily-looking jeans.

Raven V.C Andrews 2011

I use just a bit of powder on top of the base; otherwise the eye area gets too shiny and oily-looking.

Best in Beauty Riku Campo 2010

At four A.M., Jimmy and Chumley were sitting on Ocean Beach, watching the waves, viscous and oily-looking, slide over the sand.

My Dreams Out in the Street Kim Addonizio 2007

Delivery men who have scraggly, dark, oily-looking beards and carry the boxes very gingerly?

Fear and Courage - Pt 1. 2006

There was little of the usual boat traffic this morning, in the wake of the fort's burning; the bitter smell of wood ash mingled with the marshy smell of the nearby mud flats, and the water was still and oily-looking.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

After the concentration has proceeded far enough, the action of the heat is suspended, and the reddish-brown, oily-looking liquid is drawn into the vacuum-pan till it is about a third full; the concentration is completed by boiling the juice in vacuo at a temperature of 150 degrees, and even lower.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Mr. Goad glanced at me with a shudder, as I had gazed at him some three years back; and then he dropped his bad, oily-looking eyes.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

The Master Chief stepped down off the ramp and immediately found himself calf-deep in oily-looking water.

The Flood Dietz, William 2003

    Several hours later, an oily-looking fixer met Chainer on the staircase.

Chainer's Torment Mcgough, Scott 2002