Unctuous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNCTUOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• fatty, oily; marked by a smug, ingratiating and false earnestness
• excessively flattering or ingratiating; oily
• (chiefly of minerals) having a greasy or soapy feel.
• pretending to be kind and concerned
• Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy.
• Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals.
• Bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or fervid.
• unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

Words related to UNCTUOUS

unctuosity15 unctuously15

Words that contain UNCTUOUS

unctuously15 unctuousness14 unctuousnesses16

How to use UNCTUOUS in a sentence

• Doctor Groom stood at the foot of the stairs, talking with the clergyman, a stout and unctuous figure.
• He deplored, too, with such unctuous phrases, the fact that war should ever have occurred in East Africa.
• And he began to talk to her of God in his unctuous voice.
• The cracked mirrors, built into the gilded stucco, were coated with heavy unctuous dust, and the fine old painted tiles on the floor were loose and broken in places.
• He was unctuous when he was not pretty-pretty, and his views were evidently unpopular.
• Drew had already flopped down beside his desk-chair and his voice had changed from rasping efficiency to an unctuous familiarity with sin and with the Almighty.
• Cold, damp air touched them, and the faint light of the lantern above cast their shadows over unctuous gliding water, which lapped the step upon which they stood.
• For one thing it is clean dirt, nothing but pure mother earth, and not the nasty unctuous filth of city courts and back lanes.
• Society had taken the man like a root torn out of native unctuous soil, kept it in a damp cellar, hid out the breath and light.
• Thus the hand has a thousand ways of becoming dry, moist, hot, cold, soft, rough, unctuous.
• He was a dirty-looking man, young and sinewy, with long and oily hair and threadbare clothes, shiny and unctuous.
• I began to read the leading article but was so irritated by its unctuous hypocrisy that I turned the page over and scanned the headlines.
• This unctuous substance, which burns like a resin, is understood to be the decayed, and probably disordered, part of the tree.
• Meantime Apollo from his unctuous shrine Sent forth restored and with new force inspired AEneas.
• It has a fatty, unctuous feel, is either pure white or pale yellow, with an odour of decayed cheese.
• He bowed respectfully to the three occupants of the room, and addressed them in phrases of that unctuous civility which priests are accustomed to use.
• The village Arabs are perfunctory about prayer, unless unctuous strangers are in sight, who might criticize.
• The doors were aflare with flickering lights from within, and the unctuous smell of frying pork was on the air.
• A fluent, sneering youth, who lashed the guards to fury with his unctuous, diabolical tongue.
• Speaking of cooks, I found we had one of our own along, a coal-black negro with grizzled wool, an unctuous voice, and the manners of an old-school family retainer.
• The proper thing here is some scripture, repeated earnestly in unctuous tones.
• But as we get behind the shelter of the screen, we feel a generous and slightly unctuous sensation of warmth very comforting to a chilly man.
• The only precaution necessary was to allow no mixture of any unctuous materials, which destroyed the efficacy of the soap.
• Still the fog rolled up, and the lifeless sea seemed overshed with an unctuous calm.
• The East held itself aloof from him in unctuous self-righteousness, because of his stand in the Mexican War.
• He, with his unctuous flattery, would be driven from the lists.

Similar words containing CTUOU without suffix s and without prefix un

fructuous14 unctuously15 anfractuous16 fructuously19 infructuous16 unfructuous16 unctuousness14 fructuousness18 infructuously21 unctuousnesses16 fructuousnesses20

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