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unctuous
Synonyms and Antonyms of unctuous
- an unctuous effort to appear religious to the voters
artificial, backhanded, counterfeit, double, double-dealing, double-faced, fake, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, Janus-faced, jive [slang], left-handed, lip, mealy, mealymouthed, Pecksniffian, phony (also phoney), phony-baloney (or phoney-baloney), pretended, two-faced
- an unctuous appraisal of the musical talent shown by the bossʼs daughter
adulatory, fulsome, gushing, gushy, hagiographic (also hagiographical), oily, oleaginous, soapy
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