Word "OILY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Synonyms:
buttery, fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous
Examples:
an oily sycophantic press agent

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
smeared or soiled with grease or oil
Synonyms:
greasy
Examples:
get rid of rubbish and oily rags

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
containing an unusual amount of grease or oil
Synonyms:
greasy, oleaginous, sebaceous
Examples:
oily fried potatoes

Crossword Clues for OILY

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Greasy, like hair or fries
Overly greasy Newsday 20 Aug 2025
Slick LA Times Daily 07 Aug 2025
Unctuous and cunning when wife's over The Sun Two Speed 04 Aug 2025
Greasy The Sun Two Speed 04 Aug 2025
Covered in grease The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 01 Aug 2025
Greasy Commuter 31 Jul 2025
Covered with grease LA Times Daily 30 Jul 2025
Grease-smeared Puzzler Backwords 26 Jul 2025
Slick Universal 10 Jul 2025
Unctuous, obsequious The Times Concise 07 Jul 2025
Smooth or unctuous, as in manner or speech (4)
Greasy work with time gone by yard (4)
Like focaccia before it goes into the oven USA Today 03 Jul 2025
Like canned olives LA Times Daily 27 Jun 2025
Too smooth-talking Newsday 13 Jun 2025
Greasy Universal 27 May 2025
Greased The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 21 May 2025
Slick, sometimes
Full of greasy material
Begreased
Greasy The Telegraph Quick 02 May 2025
Covered in grease (4) The Guardian Quick 03 Apr 2025
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 25 Mar 2025
Full of grease Premier Sunday 16 Mar 2025
Overly smooth-talking Newsday 16 Mar 2025
Flattering and scheming, getting ring for wife The Times Cryptic 12 Mar 2025
Greasy (4) The Guardian Quick 03 Mar 2025
Slippery The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 27 Feb 2025
Greasy, like hair or fries
Grease-smeared Puzzler Backwords 26 Feb 2025
Daughter scrubbed lacy mat covered with grease The Telegraph Toughie 13 Feb 2025
Greasy Universal 09 Feb 2025
Greasy, unctuous (4)
Like some pizza slices Universal 10 Jan 2025
Like hair that hasn't been washed in a while, maybe
Like hair that hasn't been washed in a few days, maybe
Unctuous The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 25 Dec 2024
Needing a shampoo, say
Grease-filled Premier Sunday 15 Dec 2024
Oleaginous as boy who loses his head about the Italian (4)
Not exactly wily, but unctuous (4)
Greasy LA Times Daily 02 Dec 2024
Greasy Universal 27 Nov 2024
Socially even greasy (4)
Overly suave LA Times Daily 24 Nov 2024
Swimming in fat, even socially? (4) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Nov 2024
Socially alternate characters are greasy (4)
If it's oleaginous, put it in foil yourself (4)
What a well lubricated man becomes? (4)
Unctuous (4) Puzzler 21 Oct 2024
Sebaceous Puzzler Backwords 16 Oct 2024
Like a mechanic's hands, after working under the hood
Like unwashed hair, perhaps New York Times 07 Oct 2024
Swimming in fat (4) Puzzler 04 Oct 2024
Covered in lubricant (4) The Times Concise 24 Sep 2024
Swimming in fat Puzzler Backwords 24 Sep 2024
Slippery, greasy (4)
Greasy prey lion had to hold up (4)
Unctuous part of soil yuppie unearthed (4)
Like rags at the service station
Slippery with grease Mirror Tea Time 19 Aug 2024
Like some garage floors LA Times Daily 06 Aug 2024
Like unwashed hair Universal 17 Jul 2024
Remove top of table mat, it's greasy (4) Puzzler Cryptic 24 Jun 2024
Greasy section of soil you unearthed (4)
Grease-smeared (4) Puzzler Backwords 19 Jun 2024
Like rags in garages Wall Street Journal 06 Jun 2024
Smarmy Puzzler Backwords 30 May 2024
Soaked or smeared with grease (4)
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 21 May 2024
Like french fries or latkes (4)
Hard to handle Newsday 11 May 2024
Soaked in grease
Oleaginous New York Times 07 May 2024
Like suntan lotion
Like fish rich in omega-3
Slippery with grease Mirror Tea Time 11 Apr 2024
In the soil you will find it is greasy (4)
Like garage floors, sometimes Family Time 31 Mar 2024
All greased up
Ingratiating - and regularly ignored socially The Times Quick Cryptic 19 Mar 2024
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 08 Mar 2024
Greasy ring I left with head of year (4)
Greasy, like hair or fries
Describing fish rich in omega-3 (4)
Slick and regularly social yankee The Guardian Quiptic 12 Feb 2024
Covered in grease Universal 09 Feb 2024
Like the texture of many fried foods
Slick way New Yorkers might say it's ahead of time!
As smarmy as a rag you might find in the car workshop? (4)
Like some fried food
Like napkins after dabbing pizza USA Today 11 Jan 2024
Greasy USA Today 10 Jan 2024
Greasy LA Times Daily 02 Jan 2024
Full of grease Newsday 26 Dec 2023
Like canned sardines Universal 25 Dec 2023
Like acne-prone skin Family Time 18 Dec 2023
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 09 Dec 2023
Greasy The Telegraph Quick 08 Dec 2023
Fish or rag? The Guardian Quick 06 Dec 2023
Fish or rag? (4)
Swimming in fat Puzzler Backwords 20 Nov 2023
Oleaginous, unctuous The Times Concise 17 Nov 2023
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 16 Nov 2023
Like many garage floors Family Time 06 Nov 2023
Like unwashed hair Family Time 09 Oct 2023
Greasy, like some fried food
Saturated, as fries and onion rings New York Times 04 Sep 2023
Overly smooth Newsday 11 Aug 2023
Like lipstick Newsday 06 Aug 2023
Greasy Universal 02 Aug 2023
Like some garage floors Family Time 10 Jul 2023
Like unwashed hair Universal 09 Jul 2023
Like acne-prone skin Universal 27 Jun 2023
Like an auto shop floor Family Time 19 Jun 2023
Like some fried food USA Today 06 Jun 2023
Overly suave Wall Street Journal 12 May 2023
Like an auto shop floor Family Time 07 May 2023
Like salmon and sardines Wall Street Journal 21 Apr 2023
Greasy Newsday 18 Apr 2023
Like garage rags Wall Street Journal 14 Apr 2023
Not to be trusted LA Times Daily 09 Apr 2023
Greasy, like fried food
Like some salmon and sardines Universal 01 Feb 2023
Like some canned fish Universal 10 Jan 2023
Slick New York Times 06 Jan 2023
Like latkes USA Today 28 Dec 2022
Greasy The Telegraph Quick 25 Dec 2022
Take top off protective cover smeared in grease? The Telegraph Toughie 08 Dec 2022
Unctuous LA Times Daily 08 Dec 2022
Like greasy fries
Greasy USA Today 04 Nov 2022
Sebaceous New York Times 21 Oct 2022
Overly suave Thomas Joseph 12 Oct 2022
Greasy mat daughter cleared The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Oct 2022
Like dipsticks New York Times 11 Sep 2022
Like skin in need of blotting sheets Universal 14 Aug 2022
Covered with grease Newsday 10 Aug 2022
Like deep-fried food
Like garage rags Wall Street Journal 18 Jul 2022
Alternative of "dry," on shampoo bottles
Like tinned sardines LA Times Daily 30 May 2022
Overly suave Thomas Joseph 19 May 2022
Greasy, as food
Like trout or tuna Universal 09 May 2022
Overly suave Newsday 04 Mar 2022
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 26 Feb 2022
Like many a mechanic's rag LA Times Daily 17 Feb 2022
Like many a mechanic's rag The Washington Post 17 Feb 2022
Greasy Family Time 06 Feb 2022
Greasy
How T-zone skin might get USA Today 13 Dec 2021
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 13 Nov 2021
Like many a teenager's skin Universal 11 Oct 2021
Grease-laden Premier Sunday 10 Oct 2021
Like fried food
Describing Everyman: 'regularly woolly, glib'
Full of smarm The Washington Post 04 Sep 2021
Full of smarm LA Times Daily 04 Sep 2021
Overly suave LA Times Daily 02 Sep 2021
Overly suave The Washington Post 02 Sep 2021
Covered in grease USA Today 24 Aug 2021
Like a masseuse's hands, often New York Times 24 Jul 2021
Describing Everyman: ‘regularly woolly, glib‘
Socially ousted, off and on, as smarmy
Greasy LA Times Daily 17 May 2021
Greasy The Washington Post 17 May 2021
Unctuous Wall Street Journal 17 May 2021
Greasy old cycle is regularly brought back
Unctuous The Washington Post 12 Mar 2021
Unctuous LA Times Daily 12 Mar 2021
Like fried chicken wings The Washington Post Sunday 28 Feb 2021
Like a slippery garage floor The Washington Post 23 Feb 2021
Like a slippery garage floor LA Times Daily 23 Feb 2021
Like some fried food The Washington Post 21 Feb 2021
Like some fried food LA Times Daily 21 Feb 2021
Obsequious sort of fish
Like an old auto shop floor Family Time 15 Feb 2021
Like lipstick Newsday 23 Dec 2020
Greasy The Telegraph Quick 11 Dec 2020
Like hands after eating youtiao USA Today 22 Nov 2020
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 05 Nov 2020
Smooth, ingratiating The Times Concise 27 Oct 2020
Greasy Universal 17 Oct 2020
Greasy
Like a mechanic's rag Family Time 07 Sep 2020
Slick in consistency Newsday 03 Sep 2020
Overly suave Thomas Joseph 25 Aug 2020
Fatty Canadiana 24 Aug 2020
Socially, oddly withdrawn and unctuous
Smooth-tongued New York Times 16 Aug 2020
Full of smarm The Washington Post 08 Aug 2020
Full of smarm LA Times Daily 08 Aug 2020
Like some fried food
Greasy USA Today 19 Jun 2020
Like salmon The Washington Post Sunday 24 May 2020
Unctuous The Times Concise 22 May 2020
Unctuous and cunning when wife's over
Like a slick garage floor The Washington Post 21 Apr 2020
Like a slick garage floor LA Times Daily 21 Apr 2020
Slick to the touch Universal 08 Apr 2020
Like many a teen's skin Universal 04 Apr 2020
Lubricated New York Times 24 Mar 2020
Like deep-fried fries The Washington Post Sunday 15 Mar 2020
Smooth-talking The Washington Post 13 Mar 2020
Smooth-talking LA Times Daily 13 Mar 2020
Like a mechanic’s rag Wall Street Journal 08 Feb 2020
Like a mechanic's 27-Across Family Time 23 Dec 2019
Like sardines in a can New York Times 13 Nov 2019
Like sardines in a can
Like a furnace-fixer's rags Family Time 14 Oct 2019
Overly greasy Newsday 07 Oct 2019
Like fish with lots of omega-3s Universal 23 Sep 2019
Suspiciously flattering, say New York Times 25 Aug 2019
Unnervingly smooth Universal 13 Aug 2019
Smoothly ingratiating The Times Concise 23 Jul 2019
Oleaginous Canadiana 24 Jun 2019
Greasy, as a salad Family Time 16 Jun 2019
After regular dismissals, jovially unctuous
Covered with grease Newsday 08 May 2019
Covered with grease
Smooth-talking New York Times 31 Mar 2019
Greasy or dirty (less satisfactory)
Greasy Newsday 11 Mar 2019
Like a floor covered in grease
Slick, as a road Newsday 10 Feb 2019
Slick, like a garage floor LA Times Daily 04 Feb 2019
Slick, like a garage floor The Washington Post 04 Feb 2019
Like a mechanic's rag USA Today 22 Jan 2019
Like an unwiped dipstick USA Today 07 Jan 2019
Like fish with lots of omega-3s
Unnervingly smooth
Like an unwiped dipstick
Smooth-talking
Suspiciously flattering, say
Like a mechanic's rag
Slick, like a garage floor
Like some fried food
Greasy food, e.g.
Smarmy, jovially but regularly self-effacing
Greasy Canadiana 19 Nov 2018
Smeared with grease, like the floor of a garage
Grease-filled Premier Sunday 21 Oct 2018
. Boil yoghurt partially covered with grease
Smooth-talking USA Today 08 Oct 2018
Like a garage floor Family Time 07 Oct 2018
Like greasy food Universal 27 Sep 2018
Like a mechanic's rags Family Time 24 Sep 2018
Skin type that's not dry
Like mechanics' rags Universal 21 Aug 2018
Full of grease Newsday 15 Aug 2018
Grease-laden Universal 01 Aug 2018
Glib leaders orate in large yacht
Annoyingly suave Newsday 15 Apr 2018
Like deep-fried turkey Wall Street Journal 10 Apr 2018
Like lardy-cake, or what it's served on, without topping?
Greasy food, e.g.
Slick LA Times Daily 24 Jan 2018
Slick The Washington Post 24 Jan 2018
Slick
Grease-laden
Like greasy food
Like mechanics' rags
Overly smooth-talking
Smooth-talking
Like deep-fried turkey
Greasy
Slick
Smooth-talking
Like a garage rag Universal 25 Dec 2017
Like auto shop floors Family Time 17 Dec 2017
Oleaginous New York Times 19 Nov 2017
Greasy ornamental mat, top wiped The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Aug 2017
Well-lubricated Family Time 24 Jul 2017
Kind of boid that catches the woim? New York Times 12 Jul 2017
Too suave USA Today 22 May 2017
Too smooth-talking USA Today 15 May 2017
Like olives? Only in last year, primarily
Like some driveway patches The Chronicle of Higher Education 28 Apr 2017
Like a mechanic's hands, sometimes Universal 22 Apr 2017
Like mechanics' rags Wall Street Journal 22 Apr 2017
Like bad fried food LA Times Daily 12 Apr 2017
Like bad fried food The Washington Post 12 Apr 2017
Like auto shop floors USA Today 18 Mar 2017
Overly suave Newsday 16 Mar 2017
Word on some shampoo bottles Newsday 16 Feb 2017
Like slick roads Universal 12 Feb 2017
Like a mechanic's rags Universal 30 Jan 2017
Kind of boid that catches the woim?
Like bad fried food
Like a garage rag
Like a mechanic's hands, sometimes
Like slick roads
Like auto shop floors
Too smooth-talking
Too suave
Like some driveway patches
Oleaginous
Like sardines and Uriah Heep The Washington Post 09 Nov 2016
Like sardines New York Times 30 Oct 2016
Overly ingratiating The Washington Post 06 Oct 2016
Excessively charming Newsday 17 Sep 2016
Obsequious Oscar is sly when abandoning ship
Slick with lubricant Universal 10 Jul 2016
Like auto shop floors Universal 24 Jun 2016
Like some garage floors LA Times Daily 21 Jun 2016
Hard to grasp, perhaps Newsday 18 Jun 2016
Like some rags in a garage The Washington Post 06 Apr 2016
Overly ingratiating New York Times 03 Apr 2016
Grease-filled USA Today 26 Feb 2016
Slick Newsday 21 Feb 2016
Greasy napkin daughter dropped The Times Cryptic 08 Feb 2016
Slick with lubricant
Like some garage floors
Like sardines
Like auto shop floors
Well lubricated Newsday 29 Dec 2015
Like a mechanic's rag Jonesin 15 Dec 2015
Obsequious, in a way Canadiana 14 Dec 2015
Slippery Canadiana 09 Nov 2015
Like an auto repair shop floor USA Today 03 Nov 2015
Overly smooth-talking Newsday 16 Sep 2015
Unctuous Newsday 04 Sep 2015
Like some salads Jonesin 06 Aug 2015
Well-lubricated USA Today 22 Jul 2015
Smooth topsoil -- yucca provides cover The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jul 2015
Unctuous Premier Sunday 10 May 2015
Unctuous Thomas Joseph 25 Apr 2015
Covered with grease Jonesin 16 Apr 2015
Too smooth-talking Newsday 19 Feb 2015
Well-lubricated Universal 28 Jan 2015
Lacy mat daughter's given away, soaked in viscous liquid
Slick
Fit for zits
Like some suntan lotion
Well-lubricated
Greasy
Like an auto repair shop floor
Well-lubricated
Unctuous
Well lubricated
Unctuous
Too smooth-talking
Overly smooth-talking
Overly greasy
Greasy
Word on some shampoo bottles
Grease-filled
Greasy
Not to be trusted
Smeared with grease
Smarmy
In need of a shampoo, say
Like mechanics' hands
Butterlike
Like unwashed hair
Overly flattering
Oozing with smarm
Unctuous
Overly suave
Word on some shampoo bottles
Smarmy
Slick
Opposite of dry, as skin
Smarmy
Like unwashed hair
Opposite of dry, as skin
Like a service station floor
Opposite of dry, as hair
Like sulfuric acid
Sebaceous thing on cake tray died off?
Like garage floors
Adjective on some shampoo bottles
Excessively suave
Greasy
Like some garage floors
Like a dipstick
Like mechanics' hands
Like a stereotypical used-car salesman
Slick
Smarmy
Like a service station floor
Overly smooth
Like many sunscreens
Slick
Like a dipstick
Like garage floors, often
Too suave
Smarmy
Hardly trustworthy
Like a crankcase
Prone to acne, say
Like service station rags
Like a busy mechanic's rags
Like potato chips
Like mechanics' hands
Pinguid
Overly smooth
Like a dipstick, sometimes
Unctuous
Problem skin type
Like lipstick
Suave to a fault
Suave to a fault
Overly suave
Like some hair
Like a grease monkey's rag
Greasy
Way too suave
Too suave
Greasy
Opposite of dry, as hair
Needing shampoo, say
Like some fried foods
Unctuous
Unguinous
Like nitroglycerin
Unctuous
Smooth-talking
Unctuous
Bootlicking
Like margarine stains
Not dry, as hair
Like a mechanic's hands
Like creosote
Like auto crankcases
Like margarine
Smeared with grease
Like some hair applications
Like creosote
Heavily maintained, as hair
Unctuous
Like a busy mechanic's rags
Like some hair applications
Suave, and then some
Like hands after eating potato chips
Like creosote
Needing a shampoo
Like butter
Like an auto repair shop floor
Full of grease
Slick
Like a garage floor, say
Acne-prone
Like brilliantine
Unctuous
Like a scam artist
Not dry, as hair
Too smooth
Like some salad dressings
Like a garage floor, say
Needing a shampoo
Like some driveways
Like brilliantine
Like the floor of an auto repair shop
Like a garage floor
Like olives or peanuts
Like a crankcase
Like some driveways
Like some garage floors
Like some garage floors
Shampoo bottle spec
Pretentiously suave
Like garage floors
Shampoo bottle spec
Lubricative
Smarmy
Suspiciously suave
Way too smooth
Unctuous
Like many a garage floor
Overly suave
Like auto shop floors
Unctuous
Smarmy
More than glib
Like unwashed hair, maybe
Overly suave
More than glib
Like a mechanic's rag
Overly suave
Like peanuts
Word on some shampoo bottles
Slick
Like a freshly prepped baseball mitt, perhaps
Unctuous
Like a mechanic's rag
Pinguid
Slick, physically or relationally
Like creosote
Like a slick
Suave to a fault
Like a mechanic's rags
In need of a shampoo
Mechanic's rag, after use
Ingratiating
Bootlicking
Like many salad dressings
Slick
Unctuous
Unctuous
Like cold cream
Shampoo-bottle word
Like some salad dressings
Smooth-talking
Like unwashed hair
Slick with lubricant
Not to be trusted
Smarmy
Like service station rags
Like grease monkeys' paws
Grease-filled
Sleazy
In need of a shampoo
Insincere
Bootlicking
Smooth-tongued
Like a slick road
Overly smooth
Like auto shop floors
Smooth
Pretentiously suave
Hardly trustworthy
Too, too suave
Overly smooth
Pinguid
Like garage floors
Overly adulatory
Hardly trustworthy
Too glib
"___ to bed," said the grease monkey
Suave and glib
Fawning
Like greasepaint
Smooth-talking
Like seas after some spills
"___ to bed . . . " (OPEC worker's slogan?)
Fat
Glib and suave
Covered with grease
Sea condition, at times
Suave
Like canned sardines
Insinuating.
Pinguid.
Slippery.
Deceitfully affable.
Oleaginous.
Smoothly subservient.
Slick.
Unctious.
Smooth-tongued.
Smooth-tongued
Slimy
Slick
Like unwashed hair
Like garage floors
Like auto shop floors
Buttery.
Ingratiating.
Slick-mannered.
Smooth in manner.
Like some Calif. shores
Unctuous.
Bland.
Viscous.
Suave.
Too smooth.
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