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as in smoothness
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as in suaveness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unctuousness
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Anything that prices it more often, more independently and more granularly works against the smoothness.
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Marketing claims about smoothness, energy, and mood are starting points for evaluation, not endpoints.
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Graffiti contained nearly everything: urbanity, fieriness, walls, glyphs.
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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.
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This formula decongests the skin and is great for those who want to improve skin texture and oiliness.
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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.
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What emerged was a wardrobe that balanced sensuality, ease and elegance.
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There’s a certain elegance and sophistication to rooftop bars and restaurants captured in the American imagination.
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Advertisement Still, Trump’s apparent glibness comes as the Republican Party faces what could be challenging midterm elections, as the economy and affordability remain top concerns for voters.
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Post set the gold standard for manners and social behavior for generations of Americans, social graces still valued and taught today.
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Remember that coughing and sneezing without a mask is considered very bad manners, as is attempting to board a train at the last minute and potentially causing a late departure.
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Is the artificiality and structural restriction of the majority of the season a lure for a show on the verge of going thoroughly bonkers in its finale?
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Yet Voisard believes people are increasingly tuning into animal livestreams to escape artificiality.
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Their answer came in the form of Colby Donaldson, the Texan mama’s boy who performed rugged gentlemanliness.
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“Unctuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unctuousness. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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