unctuous

How To Use unctuous In A Sentence

• It was disconcerting to see that polished diplomat, always so unctuous and self-assured, show such a visible sign of distress. KING OF DREAMS
• It has the ring of casuistry, of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner.
• Flavors of plum compote, spice, green tea, and cocoa are the introduction to this wine as velvety, unctuous tannins blend with a juicy, naturally balanced mid-palate of complex structure.
• I'm sure some unctuous berk could generate some glittering generalities about freedom, democracy, human rights and the rest - but what's specifically British about those?
• I would have liked more of the unctuous Mowbray.
• The excruciatingly unctuous cable telemarketer forgot to mention, however, that the two movie channels, which come in on 500 and 400, could only be received through a descrambler.
• Another commentator derided the presenter's ‘mixture of solicitous concern, unctuous charm and glib moralising.’
• And trust mustn't even be used in the same sentence with Lotso, an ominously unctuous old teddy bear who's the eminence grise plus fraise; he smells of strawberries of the daycare center's playthings. An Ode to 'Toy'
• A home-made coleslaw, full of organic vegetables and coated in unctuous mayonnaise, accompanies a baked potato admirably, the slurpy dressing removing the need for any added butter.
• He is as unctuous as they come and as slippery and lethal as a herd of rattlers in a barrel of oil.