unctuous in English
he seemed anxious to please but not in an unctuous way
Still, the lure of any luxury item - whether it be Beluga caviar, Dom Perignon champagne or an unctuous blob of sea-urchin roe - springs partly from its cost.
Use "unctuous" in a sentence
1. He speaks in unctuous tones.
2. He made an unctuous assurance.
3. Her unctuous tones are disgusting.
4. Unctuous but vivacious in the mouth.
5. Dave is genuinely friendly without being unctuous.
6. The fat man loudly prattled unctuous apologies.
7. He was most unctuous and pleading.
8. He is aggressive towards me and unctuous towards David.
9. 6 synonyms for Adipose: fat, fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous
10. He seemed anxious to please, but not in an unctuous way.
11. Far from being unctuous Pat was always loath to appear acquiescent.
12. An unctuous clergyman who had not known Sam intoned religious platitudes.
13. More subtly there is the unctuous sadism of money and of social rank.
14. 6 More subtly there is the unctuous sadism of money and of social rank.
15. Goose fat gives the most unctuous flavour but you can use chicken fat.
16. Palate Unctuous and dense, with the pear , floral and orange flavours riding a keen acidity.
17. Rather, it was a way of rejecting unctuous, masochistic denial - which might narrow his perspectives.
18. 6 Unctuous ripe red fruit aromas intermingle with hints of freshly ground coffee beans and mocha.
19. Unctuous. Term applied to wines which are smooth, soft and full on the palate.
20. 3 Rather, it was a way of rejecting unctuous, masochistic denial - which might narrow his perspectives.
21. Sauternes are often delicious, golden, unctuous and delicate. The famous roasted note comes when Sauternes is a little bit older.
22. It’s the unctuous, lipidous oil crafted from churned cream that bathes sticky buns, glistens on bagels, Adiposes cream sauce, and lavishes mashed potatoes
23. The pineapple was lightly Acidulated, so as to cut through the dense, unctuous richness of the pork, while the sauce was delightfully savoury
24. Verb ()(label) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.* And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs Anoint .
25. Approbatory; approving; celebrating; commendatory; congratulatory; courtly; encomiastic; encomiastical; eulogistic; fair-spoken; fawning; highly favorable; honeyed; honoring; laudatory; panegyrical; plauditory; polite; praiseful; respectful; sycophantic; unctuous; well …
26. Avocado is also sometimes known as a butter pear, because of its unctuous flesh, or as alligator pear because of the Hass variety’s textured skin
27. 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
28. Leaving the figs as they are, assuming they are seriously ripe and unctuous, and simply slicing them and tossing with crisp bitter salad leaves and Aniseedy herbs
29. Medical Definition of Adipocere : a waxy or unctuous brownish substance consisting chiefly of fatty acids and calcium soaps produced by chemical changes affecting dead body fat and muscle long buried or immersed in moisture
30. There are also several similar words to Butyraceous in our dictionary, which are Adipose, Buttery, Creamy, Lardy, Lubricant, Lustrous, Oiled, Oleaginous, Polished, Rich, Saponaceous, Sleek, Slippery, Smeary, Smooth, Soapy, Soothing, Swimming, Unctuous, Waxy and Lubricative.
31. Beerenauslese literally means 'select harvest of berries' and that's exactly what Gerd has done to create this 37.5cl bottle of unctuous sweet goodness! The juicy Ortega and Silvaner grapes are left on the vines to develop a gorgeously intense sweetness and concentration of flavour.
32. As verbs the difference between anoint and Anele is that anoint is (label) to smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil while Anele is (obsolete) to anoint; to give extreme unction to a wound with oil.
33. "Then shalt thou take the Anointing oil, and pour it upon his [Aaron's] head and Anoint him." "Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria." Anoint To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil
34. But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and Blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of …
35. But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and Blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of …
36. But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and Blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of …
37. The more one reads and reflects on this passage and on the hundred similar gems of description which can be found in any of his novels, the more wonderful and absolute appears his mastery over that unctuous, fatuous, idiotic, pseudo-poetic 'high-falutin' which is the despair of his rivals in popular Bathetical pathos.
38. But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and Blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of a ham in a perspiration with the pace it was going at, of a shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their