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Examples of oleaginous in a Sentence
the office manager greeted the corporate bigwigs with an oleaginous welcome that should have embarrassed him
Recent Examples of oleaginous from the Web
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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.
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Open vats bubbled with a dark oleaginous resin used to remove feathers.
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The overall effect was like a school speech-ceremony, addressed by a too oleaginous guest speaker.
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First, Tillerson was introduced by Tailgunner Ted Cruz, which got everyone's morning off to a fairly oleaginous start.
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Sometime around 2000, Sater got to know a neighbor, Tevfik Arif, an oleaginous former Soviet official from Kazakhstan.
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Smith is louder and more polarizing (thus creating more interest) where Bayless is an aging, oleaginous wrestling heel.
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The oily oleaginous slipped into English through Middle French, coming from the Latin oleagineus, meaning "of an olive tree." Oleagineus itself is from the Latin olea, meaning "olive tree," and ultimately from the Greek elaia, meaning "olive." Oleaginous was at first used in a literal sense, as it still can be. An oleaginous substance is simply oily, and an oleaginous plant produces oil. The word took on its extended "ingratiating" sense in the 19th century.
Origin and Etymology of oleaginous
First Known Use: 15th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Near Antonyms
artless, earnest, genuine, heartfelt, honest, ingenuous, sincere, true, unaffected, unfeigned, unpretending, unpretentious;
Related Words
drooling, slavering, slobbering;
demonstrative, effusive, mushy, uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained;
artificial, backhanded, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealymouthed, sanctimonious, two-faced;
disarming, endearing, ingratiating, winning, winsome;
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