Crossword-Solution: UNCTUOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unctuous | a. | Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. |
| Unctuous | a. | Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. |
| Unctuous | a. | Bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or fervid. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “UNCTUOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sickeningly suave | 1 answer |
| Overly slick | 1 answer |
| Excessively ingratiating | 1 answer |
| oleaginous | 4 answers |
| fatlike | 6 answers |
| Adipose | 23 answers |
| Obsequious | 23 answers |
| adulatory | 25 answers |
| flattering | 28 answers |
| Fatty __ | 42 answers |
| Greasy | 42 answers |
| Oily | 44 answers |
| fulsome | 51 answers |
| bland | 56 answers |
| smug | 56 answers |
| Fawning | 63 answers |
| Slippery | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UNCTUOUS (5)
Hope elevates, and joy Bright’ns his Crest, as when a wandring Fire Compact of unctuous vapor, which the Night Condenses, and the cold invirons round, Kindl’d through agitation to a Flame, Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive Light, Misleads th’ amaz’d Night-wanderer from his way To Boggs and Mires, & oft through Pond or Poole, There swallow’d up and lost, from succour farr.
The truth was, nevertheless, that it had been planted by Alice Pyncheon,—she was Phœbe’s great-great-grand-aunt,—in soil which, reckoning only its cultivation as a garden-plat, was now unctuous with nearly two hundred years of vegetable decay.
Anon, with unctuous hair and faces stiffened in a conventional grin, we sat and listened to the usual platitudes.
The halls and passages of the castle were already permeated with rich and unctuous smells, and a delicate nose might have picked out and arranged, by their finer or coarser vapors, the dishes preparing for the upper and lower tables.
Fortunat’s lips, and any one seeing him then would subsequently have had but little confidence in his customary good-natured air and unctuous politeness.
Quotes with UNCTUOUS (3)
God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window, more human than kerosene, more unctuous, more manly.
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
Occasionally I looked up towards some vast old apartment with its shutters still open and where amphibious men and women, adapting themselves each evening to living in an element different from their daytime one, swam about slowly in the dense liquid which at nightfall rises incessantly from the wells of lamps and fills the rooms to the brink of their walls of stone and glass, and as they moved about in it, their bodies sent forth unctuous golden ripples.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2012–2024).