About The Word Oily
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Oily
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What's The Definition Of Oily?
[adj] smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"
[adj] containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds" [adj] coated or covered with oil; "oily puddles in the streets" [adj] unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep" Synonyms | Synonyms for Oily: buttery | coated | dirty | fat | fatty | fulsome | greasy | insincere | oleaginous | sebaceous | smarmy | soiled | unclean | unctuous Related Terms | Find terms related to Oily: adipose | adulatory | bland | blandishing | blarneying | blubbery | buttery | butyraceous | cajoling | canting | chrismal | chrismatory | complimentary | courtierly | courtly | disarming | fair-spoken | fat | fatty | fawning | fine-spoken | flattering | fulsome | glib | goody-goody | greased | greasy | gushing | holier-than-thou | honeyed | honey-mouthed | honey-tongued | hypocritic | hypocritical | ingratiating | insincere | insinuating | lardaceous | lardy | lubric | lubricated | lubricious | mealymouthed | mucoid | obsequious | oiled | oily-tongued | oleaginous | oleic | Pecksniffian | pharisaic | pharisean | rich | sanctimonious | sebaceous | servile | simon-pure | sleek | slick | sliddery | slimy | slippery | slippy | slithery | slobbery | smarmy | smooth | smooth-spoken | smooth-tongued | smug | soaped | soapy | soft-soaping | soft-spoken | sophisticated | suave | suave-spoken | suety | sycophantic | tallowy | unctuous | unguent | unguentary | unguentous | urbane | wheedling See Also | Oily In Webster's Dictionary \Oil"y\, a. [Compar. {Oilier}; superl. {Oiliest}.]
1. Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or
qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or
substance. --Bacon.
2. Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an
oily appearance.
3. Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible;
insinuating. ``This oily rascal.'' --Shak.
His oily compliance in all alterations. --Fuller.
{Oily grain} (Bot.), the sesame.
{Oily palm}, the oil palm.
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