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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Slick Universal 18 May 2026
Unctuous The Atlantic 10 May 2026
Grease-smeared Puzzler Backwords 10 May 2026
Like mackerel LA Times Daily 26 Apr 2026
Greasy, like hair or fries
Overly suave Wall Street Journal 14 Apr 2026
Filled with 97-Across Newsday 12 Apr 2026
Greasy, maybe TV 29 Mar 2026
Greasy USA Today Quick 17 Mar 2026
Overly greasy USA Today 16 Mar 2026
Overly suave Thomas Joseph 09 Mar 2026
Like an otter's fur LA Times Daily 17 Feb 2026
Greasy USA Today Quick 31 Jan 2026
Like acne-prone skin Universal 19 Jan 2026
Grease-smeared Puzzler Backwords 17 Dec 2025
Like some pizza slices Universal 16 Nov 2025
Greasy Universal 08 Nov 2025
Unctuous Eugene Sheffer 28 Oct 2025
Unctuous The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 13 Oct 2025
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
Greasy, like hair or fries
Slippery The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 27 Feb 2025
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
Needing a shampoo, say
Unctuous The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 25 Dec 2024
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)
What a well lubricated man becomes? (4)
If it's oleaginous, put it in foil yourself (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
Swimming in fat Puzzler Backwords 24 Sep 2024
Covered in lubricant (4) The Times Concise 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
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
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
Like many a mechanic's rag LA Times Daily 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
Full of smarm LA Times Daily 04 Sep 2021
Overly suave LA Times Daily 02 Sep 2021
Overly suave
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
Unctuous Wall Street Journal 17 May 2021
Greasy old cycle is regularly brought back
Unctuous
Unctuous LA Times Daily 12 Mar 2021
Like fried chicken wings
Like a slippery garage floor LA Times Daily 23 Feb 2021
Like a slippery garage floor
Like some fried food LA Times Daily 21 Feb 2021
Like some fried food
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
Socially, oddly withdrawn and unctuous
Smooth-tongued New York Times 16 Aug 2020
Full of smarm LA Times Daily 08 Aug 2020
Full of smarm
Like some fried food
Greasy USA Today 19 Jun 2020
Like salmon
Unctuous The Times Concise 22 May 2020
Unctuous and cunning when wife's over
Like a slick garage floor LA Times Daily 21 Apr 2020
Like a slick garage floor
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
Smooth-talking
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
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
Slick, like a garage floor LA Times Daily 04 Feb 2019
Like a mechanic's rag USA Today 22 Jan 2019
Like an unwiped dipstick USA Today 07 Jan 2019
Suspiciously flattering, say
Like some fried food
Like an unwiped dipstick
Like a mechanic's rag
Slick, like a garage floor
Like fish with lots of omega-3s
Unnervingly smooth
Smooth-talking
Greasy food, e.g.
Smarmy, jovially but regularly self-effacing
Greasy
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
Slick LA Times Daily 24 Jan 2018
Smooth-talking
Like deep-fried turkey
Overly smooth-talking
Like mechanics' rags
Like greasy food
Grease-laden
Slick
Smooth-talking
Slick
Greasy
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
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
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
Like a mechanic's hands, sometimes
Too smooth-talking
Like auto shop floors
Like slick roads
Like a garage rag
Like some driveway patches
Like bad fried food
Oleaginous
Kind of boid that catches the woim?
Too suave
Like sardines and Uriah Heep
Like sardines New York Times 30 Oct 2016
Overly ingratiating
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
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
Like auto shop floors
Like some garage floors
Slick with lubricant
Like sardines
Well lubricated Newsday 29 Dec 2015
Like a mechanic's rag
Obsequious, in a way
Slippery
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
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
Too smooth-talking Newsday 19 Feb 2015
Well-lubricated Universal 28 Jan 2015
Lacy mat daughter's given away, soaked in viscous liquid
Too smooth-talking
Fit for zits
Unctuous
Greasy
Greasy
Like an auto repair shop floor
Well-lubricated
Overly smooth-talking
Slick
Well-lubricated
Overly greasy
Like some suntan lotion
Unctuous
Well lubricated
In need of a shampoo, say
Overly flattering
Smarmy
Like unwashed hair
Oozing with smarm
Word on some shampoo bottles
Grease-filled
Like mechanics' hands
Not to be trusted
Smeared with grease
Greasy
Butterlike
Smarmy
Smarmy
Opposite of dry, as skin
Like sulfuric acid
Unctuous
Like a service station floor
Like unwashed hair
Opposite of dry, as hair
Overly suave
Opposite of dry, as skin
Word on some shampoo bottles
Slick
Sebaceous thing on cake tray died off?
Slick
Like a dipstick
Like garage floors
Like some garage floors
Smarmy
Adjective on some shampoo bottles
Like mechanics' hands
Greasy
Like a service station floor
Excessively suave
Like a stereotypical used-car salesman
Overly smooth
Like garage floors, often
Prone to acne, say
Like a dipstick
Like many sunscreens
Slick
Hardly trustworthy
Too suave
Like a crankcase
Smarmy
Suave to a fault
Overly smooth
Pinguid
Like potato chips
Suave to a fault
Like mechanics' hands
Problem skin type
Like lipstick
Unctuous
Like a dipstick, sometimes
Like a busy mechanic's rags
Like service station rags
Overly suave
Way too suave
Too suave
Like some hair
Like a grease monkey's rag
Greasy
Unctuous
Needing shampoo, say
Unguinous
Like margarine stains
Greasy
Unctuous
Unctuous
Bootlicking
Like some fried foods
Like nitroglycerin
Opposite of dry, as hair
Smooth-talking
Not dry, as hair
Like a mechanic's hands
Smeared with grease
Like creosote
Like some hair applications
Needing a shampoo
Like auto crankcases
Like creosote
Like margarine
Unctuous
Like a busy mechanic's rags
Like hands after eating potato chips
Suave, and then some
Like creosote
Like some hair applications
Heavily maintained, as hair
Like some salad dressings
Unctuous
Like a garage floor, say
Like an auto repair shop floor
Like brilliantine
Like brilliantine
Acne-prone
Like some driveways
Slick
Full of grease
Needing a shampoo
Not dry, as hair
Like butter
Like a scam artist
Like a garage floor, say
Too smooth
Like a crankcase
Like some driveways
Like some garage floors
Like some garage floors
Like the floor of an auto repair shop
Like a garage floor
Like olives or peanuts
Like many a garage floor
Way too smooth
Shampoo bottle spec
Like auto shop floors
Like garage floors
Lubricative
Pretentiously suave
Suspiciously suave
Smarmy
Smarmy
Shampoo bottle spec
Unctuous
Unctuous
Overly suave
Like peanuts
Overly suave
Like unwashed hair, maybe
More than glib
Like a mechanic's rag
More than glib
Like a mechanic's rag
Unctuous
Like a freshly prepped baseball mitt, perhaps
Slick
Overly suave
Word on some shampoo bottles
Mechanic's rag, after use
In need of a shampoo
Slick, physically or relationally
Like a mechanic's rags
Pinguid
Ingratiating
Like creosote
Like a slick
Bootlicking
Suave to a fault
Unctuous
Like some salad dressings
Like cold cream
Unctuous
Shampoo-bottle word
Like many salad dressings
Slick
Like unwashed hair
Smooth-talking
Like service station rags
Not to be trusted
Slick with lubricant
Smarmy
In need of a shampoo
Sleazy
Grease-filled
Like grease monkeys' paws
Insincere
Smooth-tongued
Bootlicking
Hardly trustworthy
Like auto shop floors
Too, too suave
Pretentiously suave
Overly smooth
Like a slick road
Overly smooth
Smooth
Pinguid
Overly adulatory
Like garage floors
Hardly trustworthy
Too glib
"___ to bed," said the grease monkey
Fawning
Suave and glib
Like greasepaint
Smooth-talking
Like seas after some spills
Fat
"___ to bed . . . " (OPEC worker's slogan?)
Glib and suave
Covered with grease
Suave
Sea condition, at times
Like canned sardines
Bland.
Smoothly subservient.
Deceitfully affable.
Slippery.
Pinguid.
Insinuating.
Too smooth.
Viscous.
Unctuous.
Suave.
Ingratiating.
Smooth-tongued.
Like some Calif. shores
Unctious.
Slick.
Slick
Like auto shop floors
Like unwashed hair
Buttery.
Slick-mannered.
Smooth in manner.
Like garage floors
Oleaginous.
Slimy
Smooth-tongued
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