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Unctuousness   Listen
Unctuousness

noun
1.
Smug self-serving earnestness.  Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction.





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"Unctuousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... cold civility. Beaumaroy did not relax into his earlier friendliness. His apparent dislike to her husband's plan of staying at the Cottage roused Mrs. Radbolt's suspicions again; was he a rogue after all, but a very plausible, a very deep one? Only Mr. Radbolt's unctuousness—surely it would have smoothed the ...
— The Secret of the Tower • Hope, Anthony


Words linked to "Unctuousness" :   hypocrisy, unctuous


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