Crossword-Solution: OILY 4 letters, 259 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Oily	superl.	Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance.
Oily	superl.	Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.
Oily	superl.	Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating.

We have 259 clues for the answer “OILY”

Clue	Answers
"___ to bed . . . " (OPEC worker's slogan?)	1 answer
"___ to bed," said the grease monkey	1 answer
Acne-prone	1 answer
Adjective on some shampoo bottles	1 answer
Annoyingly suave	1 answer
Butterlike	1 answer
Covered in grease	1 answer
Deceitfully affable.	1 answer
Excessively suave	1 answer
Fat-filled	1 answer
Fit for zits	1 answer
Full of smarm	1 answer
Glib and suave	1 answer
Grease-filled	1 answer
Grease-laden	1 answer
Hard to grasp, perhaps	1 answer
Hardly trustworthy	1 answer
Heavily maintained, as hair	1 answer
How T-zone skin might get	1 answer
In an unctuous fashion	1 answer
In need of a shampoo	1 answer
In need of a shampoo, say	1 answer
Insincerely nice	1 answer
Kind of boid that catches the woim?	1 answer
Like Alaska's Prince William Sound in early 1989	1 answer
Like some salad dressings or mechanic’s hands	1 answer
Like a busy mechanic's rags	1 answer
Like a crankcase	1 answer
Like a dipstick	1 answer
Like a dipstick, sometimes	1 answer
Like a freshly prepped baseball mitt, perhaps	1 answer
Like a garage floor	1 answer
Like a garage floor, say	1 answer
Like a garage rag	1 answer
Like a grease monkey's rag	1 answer
Like a masseuse's hands, often	1 answer
Like a mechanic's hands	1 answer
Like a mechanic's hands, sometimes	1 answer
Like a mechanic's rag	1 answer
Like a mechanic's rags	1 answer
Like a real scuzzbucket	1 answer
Like a scam artist	1 answer
Like a service station floor	1 answer
Like a slick	1 answer
Like a slick garage floor	1 answer
Like a slippery garage floor	1 answer
Like a stereotypical used-car salesman	1 answer
Like an auto repair shop floor	1 answer
Like an unwashed face	1 answer
Like an unwiped dipstick	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETERA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with OILY (5)

Three whole days and nights alternate Old Nokomis and the sea-gulls Stripped the oily flesh of Nahma, Till the waves washed through the rib-bones, Till the sea-gulls came no longer, And upon the sands lay nothing But the skeleton of Nahma.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

The broad steely sea, marked only by faint lines, which had a semblance of being etched thereon to a degree not deep enough to disturb its general evenness, stretched the whole width of his front and round to the left, where, near the town and port of Budmouth, the sun bristled down upon it, and banished all colour, to substitute in its place a clear oily polish.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

The following is the mode of ridding it of this noxious ingredient: Dissolve, in about six or seven quarts of filtered water, about five ounces of potash; when dissolved, wash with the solution an ordinary buckskin; when it has been well stirred in the liquid, the water becomes very soapy, owing to the combination of the potash with the oily matters contained in the skin.

American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994

Quotes with OILY (3)

I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts …

Pablo Neruda Memoirs

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

Leonard Cohen

This night is going well." Hello there." I speak too soon. Dunstan enters, his two cronies behind him. Everyone standing around goes quiet. I flinch, but not for me; he's gazing at Ivy like a lion at a piece of meat. Ivy just keeps grinning." And may I say you are the prettiest girl I've seen all night," Dunstan says, not noticing the fact Ivy's already taken. Ivy stares down at her feet, a pale blush the color of pink roses brushed across her cheeks. "You don't mean that," s…

Colleen Boyd

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 503 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).