Examples of oleaginous in a Sentence

the office manager greeted the corporate bigwigs with an oleaginous welcome that should have embarrassed him

Recent Examples on the Web The same goes for the oleaginous Uriah Heep (Ben Whishaw), the legal clerk who can worm into people’s brains, as if into their guts, with his show of humility. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020 And there is the womanizing Mr. Mantalini, whose gift for oleaginous flattery always persuades his long-suffering wife to take him back. — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2020 The administration’s effort to promote Saudi Arabia as a regional proxy, to help effect its withdrawal, is also somehow oleaginous. — The Economist, 23 Apr. 2020 Critics described him variously as pompous, sycophantic, unctuous, oleaginous and obsequious. — Jo Craven Mcginty, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020 Eggplant sponges up so much olive oil in the traditional caponata recipe that the end result often is a caponata that is cloyingly oleaginous. — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 26 June 2019 Trump and Vice President Pence responded with lies (blaming the Obama administration), deflection (blaming Democrats in Congress) and lots of oleaginous faux concern. — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 25 June 2019 The growing clamor for greasy bacon, sausages stuffed with supple lard, and pork chops oozing with deep, scrumptious, oleaginous flab is so strong, in fact, that a problem has developed. — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 28 July 2017 Open vats bubbled with a dark oleaginous resin used to remove feathers. — Yan Cong, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017

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