How To Use Unctuous In A Sentence
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It was disconcerting to see that polished diplomat, always so unctuous and self-assured, show such a visible sign of distress.
KING OF DREAMS
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It has the ring of casuistry, of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner.
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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.
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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?
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I would have liked more of the unctuous Mowbray.
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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.
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Another commentator derided the presenter's ‘mixture of solicitous concern, unctuous charm and glib moralising.’
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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'
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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.
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He is as unctuous as they come and as slippery and lethal as a herd of rattlers in a barrel of oil.
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I wouldn't waste two seconds listening to that unctuous socialite.
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King responded to the salute from Obama with a kind of benumbed indifference, although later in the show he expressed oddly unctuous gratitude to fellow TV talker "Dr. Phil" McGraw, who popped into the studio for a folksy bye-bye.
A star-studded, but still somewhat muted, farewell for 'Larry King Live'
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He had become suave and unctuous, a kind of elephantine irony pervading his laborious attempts at conciliation.
I Will Repay
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I had never a goat cheese of that character, with the wonderful bloomy rind covering ash and the unctuous ribbon of aged cheese that surrounds the creamy center.
Say Cheese: Meet Caroline Ross
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_French chalk_: A variety of the mineral called talc, unctuous to the touch, of greenish color, glossy, soft, and easily scratched, and leaving a silvery line when drawn on paper.
American Woman's Home
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His breaded pork escalopes come tender but crunchy with unctuous buttery anchovies and fried egg, an interesting spin on the Weiner Schnitzel theme.
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If anyone in history has ever emitted a bigger pile of oozing, sanctimonious, unctuous, fetid, perfidious, malodorous offal than this, I'd like to know what it could possibly be.
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Once, when he was delivering himself of an unctuous remark to Jerry, Faith broke in rudely with a flat contradiction.
Rainbow Valley
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He publicly excoriated the film director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) and the artist Cai Guo Qiang (the man whose firework dragon failed to ignite on the Thames at the millennium) for creating the opening ceremony, which he termed "a visual crap-pile of phony affection and hypocritical unctuousness . . . an encyclopedia of spiritual subjugation".
Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist
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The first moment after a disaster, we do not need news anchors unchained to any news, no shred of useful information, but plenty of unctuous sympathy.
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The lousy, unctuous toad is going to be investigated.
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The lightly poached egg that arrives on top of terrific, seemingly creamless spaghetti carbonara leaks its unctuous yolk over strips of pancetta, slivered endive and parsley, and slick al dente noodles.
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Her lush sensuality remains intact, but the unctuous, buttery impasto and singing colour contrast past felicity with present vacancy, and blend lyricism with passionate lament.
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Bob, by the way, only casually mentioned his war record, though there is still something unctuous even about that.
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The bizarre navy-blue apron and officious change from high heels to dominatrix flats is the only forlorn remnant of any concept of service, feebly shored up by the unctuousness of the scripted public address announcements.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Whether unto eight or ten bodies of men to add one of a woman, as being more inflammable and unctuously constituted for the better pyral combustion, were any rational practice; or whether the complaint of Periander's wife be tolerable, that wanting her funeral burning, she suffered intolerable cold in hell, according to the constitution of the infernal house of Pluto, wherein cold makes a great part of their tortures; it cannot pass without some question.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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Then you continue on in your hatefully superior day, you unctuous benevolent light shedder.
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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.
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_French chalk_, a variety of the mineral called talc, unctuous to the touch, of a greenish color, glossy, soft, and easily scratched, and leaving a silvery line, when drawn on paper.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
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It would be almost too easy to pull information out of this unctuous jackanapes.
Earl of Durkness
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Rather, it was a way of rejecting unctuous, masochistic denial - which might narrow his perspectives.
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She was leaning on the car, eyes clamped shut, when an unctuous voice spoke in her ear.
LOST CHILDREN
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a soft, unctuous stone resembling steatite (soapstone); it is true agalmatolite, a mineral popularly called pagoda stone.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
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At their best, Chilean wines are unctuously juicy and intense, with bags of exotic ripe fruit.
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The fruit of laurel trees are called bays, and are brown or red without, and white within and unctuous.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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His companion was ripe and unctuous; as grand and imposing as a high-class, three-tiered wedding cake.
BEHINDLINGS
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The service at lunch was also very good, but a bit unctuous - in a restaurant like this, I don't really need to be told by the server that my choice of the ravioli is a fabulous one.
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The ending of the story is a bit of a cop-out as the unctuous game show host invokes a hitherto-unknown rule and claims the date with Jennifer for himself.
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This unctuous purée is good served with barbecued lamb cutlets and a green salad, or with cold corned beef or ham.
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I remember John Rafferty, the unctuous head of the Glasgow based Volunteer Centre who helped Brown smear his way up the greasy pole in the 1980's on the backs of cash syphoned off from projects designed to help the young unemployed.
Britain's Worst Prime Minister
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Is composed almost entirely of a peculiar greenish-blue, unctuous, laminated clay, gypsiferous in places; light-bluish-gray color when fresh, weathering dull yellow and making a black soil.
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Slow-cooked grain and rice pilafs, unctuously oily stuffed vegetables, melting stews of meat, vegetable and grain are their stock-in-trade.
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the unctuous Uriah Heep
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This is necessary, since unfortunately, even in so-called folkish circles, all sorts of unctuous big-mouths step forward, endeavoring to set the rectification of the injustice of 1918 as the aim of the German nation's endeavors in the field of foreign affairs, but at the same time find it necessary to assure the whole world of folkish brotherhood and sympathy.
Mein Kampf
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If you don´t need that unctuous social scene here but love the climate and beautiful surroundings; you may really like living here as do we. some of us "old goobers" experience an entirely different life than you do or the above described, senor bubinski.
Moving to Ajijic Possibly?
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This unctuous purée is good served with barbecued lamb cutlets and a green salad, or with cold corned beef or ham.
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Roast them until they're nearly burnt, then cover with cold water and simmer for up to two days (if you want to make a truly unctuous sauce there are no shortcuts).
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Pete is one of those tiresome, unctuous types who thinks he's a wit and is half-right.
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Charlie Baker's Facebook page, similarly once the exclusive preserve of unctuous "He's just so tall" verbiage, alternating with ugly vituperation, is now studded with rejoinders and tweaks from plucky digital campaigners ( "Well where the hell was Baker at in my community.
Progressives roar to life in MA: Blogs bloom with enthusiasm
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To make them, the fatty segment of brisket called the deckle is thrown back into the smoker for extra rendering, then served as a pile of crunchy, unctuous hunks, crusted in a swarthy, earthy rub that includes brown sugar, paprika and Greek coffee.
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The lightly poached egg that arrives on top of terrific, seemingly creamless spaghetti carbonara leaks its unctuous yolk over strips of pancetta, slivered endive and parsley, and slick al dente noodles.
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A lot of those who oppose Lieberman are longtime liberals who are tired of him being the Republicans 'pet Democrat, and fed up with his unctuous mushmouth pieties in support of Bush initiatives.
Hard Fascism, Soft Heads: James Wolcott
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It would be impossible to walk by without succumbing to a tub of mellow, unctuous olives, or a modestly priced, sit-down lunch (as opposed to leftovers in the fridge).
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This was instant Best Dish material, but there was also the knock - out tortelli: silken, fleshy, eggy squares filled with sweet pumpkin, anointed with an unctuous garlic, sage and pistachio butter and dusted with Parmesan.
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Fat and featureless, pink and pincushiony, it was borrowed by gushing maidenhood, exchanged by idiotic maternity, and had grown unctuous and tumefacient under the kisses and embraces of half the hotel.
By Shore and Sedge
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The wines of the Sauternes appellation, at their best, are golden to orange marmalade in colour and possess a fabulous complex sweetness, without oiliness, sugary fatness or unctuousness.
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His character is oily and unctuous, bestowing kisses upon any woman in reach, including cringing audience members.
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It seems that certain connoisseurs were not averse to engineering breakages so that precious vessels could be mended in this way, and beyond the sinuous lines — some exquisitely fine, occasionally spidery and nervous, others unctuous, broad, plump, and fluid — the volatile elements of chance and happenstance, in other words the randomness of these sudden breakages, lends to this art its clever brinkmanship with the big twin concepts of time and impermanence.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Custard pie -- custard pie," she sang, softly, yet unctuously, as she stirred and mingled the materials before her; "custard pie -- _custard_ pie.
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains
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He gave a speech on his new charity work, and it was one of those smooth unctuous bits of California blarney no one could make with a straight face today.
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It has nice touches such as the Bath Butler service, which delivers unctuous oils, chocolate-covered strawberries and a glass of champagne to your bath-side for a reasonable price.
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My first meal was a dainty foie gras burger, served in all its unctuous richness, without burger meat, on a toasted, tea-sandwich-size bun.
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But as so often, it seems even charitable works nowadays have to double as celebrity photo opportunities as the rich and famous parade their unctuous concern for the less fortunate.
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Shades of Tuscaloosa circa 1963 without the sexual revolution and there was an old frat brother so into the 1950s South Alabama-back-patting-hail-fellow-well - met unctuous culture I thought Geotge Wallace had risen from the grave and come back to haunt me late in life and now this old frat brother is down there sucking up to Amigos de San Cristóbal and damn, I thought I was safe within 50 kilometers of the Guatemala border.
Free Range Chickens
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She was even less pleasant than the metallic voice who caressed me with his unctuous assurances… ‘Your call is important to us.’
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‘Politics is not the easiest game in the world,’ the environment minister explained in that unctuous voice that brings to mind a parish priest delivering a sermon.
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The tone of Bunglawala's letter is a composite of the unctuous, the peremptory and the ugly. sean cowen
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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His breaded pork escalopes come tender but crunchy with unctuous buttery anchovies and fried egg, an interesting spin on the Weiner Schnitzel theme.
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Beyond that, it promises to provide a weekly primer on dopey and unctuous behavior among upscale hillbillies who dress well.
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He is aggressive towards me and unctuous towards David.
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An assembly of fresh wild mushrooms was heavily scented with dried ceps, the cheese had been employed with restraint, adding unctuousness to the sauce, and interesting secondary flavour.
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Plinlimmon would seem to be offering a kind of antinomian horology at worst, at best an unctuous pragmatism of local mores.
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If anyone in history has ever emitted a bigger pile of oozing, sanctimonious, unctuous, fetid, perfidious, malodorous offal than this, I'd like to know what it could possibly be.
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She had met that unctuous little Goebbels at some gathering and scolded him about it.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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He would seem to be offering a kind of antinomian horology at worst, at best an unctuous pragmatism of local mores.
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Whether unto eight or ten bodies of men to add one of a woman, as being more inflammable and unctuously constituted for the better pyral combustion, were any rational practice; or whether the complaint of
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial