adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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unctuous food
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Dave is genuinely friendly without being unctuous .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beyond that, it promises to provide a weekly primer on dopey and unctuous behavior among upscale hillbillies who dress well.
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He seemed anxious to please, but not in an unctuous way.
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More subtly there is the unctuous sadism of money and of social rank.
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Rather, it was a way of rejecting unctuous , masochistic denial - which might narrow his perspectives.
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The fat man loudly prattled unctuous apologies.