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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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Hints of baked apple and light oak tannins emerge mid-palate, evoking an apple-pie character with a Tennessee-style charcoal smoothness.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026 -
Lips that don’t quite sync to the audio, limited facial movement, a smoothness to someone’s appearance that seems slightly off.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
12 May 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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The whole resort has a magical feel to it–something like an imaginative, culturally-rich dreamland for thoughtful travelers who appreciate the elegance and joy of life.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 May 2026
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His pieces appearing in the rooms as well as the public spaces give an unsettling elegance.—
Jamie Timson,
TheWeek,
27 May 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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Firm if slightly sweaty handshake notwithstanding, there’s a gentleness to Root; old-school manners, slender shoulders and a reedy Sheffield twang.—
James Wallace,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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The main house, completed in 2022 by Fox Construction, borrows the soul of the farmhouse without inheriting any bad manners.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2026
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Diplomacy and the pragmatic duplicity that sometimes accompanies it are ingrained at every level of Iran’s political class.—
Nic Robertson,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
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For some, the implications of duplicity and obscured identity in the line could well apply to its author—and thereby hangs a tale.—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 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
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“Unctuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unctuousness. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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