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as in smoothness
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as in suaveness
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Recent Examples of unctuousness
Bad mini cones are made with soggy cones and sweet, fluffy filling that has none of the unctuousness of real ice cream.
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Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unctuousness
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What’s struck me most during the Finals, though, isn’t just his smoothness but his selflessness.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
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So the arguing fades, and the smoothness gets mistaken for strength.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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This is why during pregnancy, some pre-existing skincare concerns, like chronic breakouts or oiliness, either completely vanish or temporarily worsen.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
28 May 2026
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According to the brand, the mask even delivers enhanced light therapy to your T-zone (forehead and nose) and U-zone (jawline, chin, and cheeks) to better target fine lines, oiliness, and breakouts.—
Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
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His music is, in the best sense, grown-up, proof that a gifted songwriter can tackle the headiest, heaviest topics, compressing a novel’s worth of ideas, intelligence, irony, urbanity, humor and ambivalence into four minutes.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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Catherine’s house doesn’t evoke Hyde Park brownstones, or even urbanity, so much as some generic Midwest vista, which is not right for this play.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Spacious rooms and suites are among some of the largest in the city and reflect the elegance, refinement, and comfort long associated with Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
4 June 2026
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Here are nine couches for small spaces that channel elegance without stuffiness.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
4 June 2026
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McKenna embraces every inch of Piggy’s awkwardness, every desperate plea for acceptance and friendship, without polish or artificiality.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
4 May 2026
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Yet Voisard believes people are increasingly tuning into animal livestreams to escape artificiality.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2026
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Those numbers were extraordinary by the standards of the day, yet despite its reputation, the RS2 is extreme in neither its looks nor its manners.—
Ben Oliver,
Robb Report,
8 June 2026
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Coroner Jason Nichols declined to comment on the causes or manners of the two men’s deaths, citing the ongoing investigation.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
8 June 2026
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Britain’s largest police force, on the other hand, is presented as the height of duplicity.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
3 June 2026
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Pakistan, for its part, accused Washington of its own duplicity, relying on Pakistan as a partner to fight terrorism, yet never fully backing the country in its conflicts with India.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
3 June 2026
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Their answer came in the form of Colby Donaldson, the Texan mama’s boy who performed rugged gentlemanliness.—
Shaan Merchant,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unctuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unctuousness. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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