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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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
Grease-smeared (4)
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)
Covered in lubricant (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
Unctuous LA Times Daily 08 Dec 2022
Take top off protective cover smeared in grease? The Telegraph Toughie 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 The Washington Post 17 Feb 2022
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 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
Unctuous Wall Street Journal 17 May 2021
Greasy The Washington Post 17 May 2021
Greasy old cycle is regularly brought back
Unctuous LA Times Daily 12 Mar 2021
Unctuous The Washington Post 12 Mar 2021
Like fried chicken wings The Washington Post Sunday 28 Feb 2021
Like a slippery garage floor LA Times Daily 23 Feb 2021
Like a slippery garage floor The Washington Post 23 Feb 2021
Like some fried food LA Times Daily 21 Feb 2021
Like some fried food The Washington Post 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 LA Times Daily 08 Aug 2020
Full of smarm The Washington Post 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 LA Times Daily 21 Apr 2020
Like a slick garage floor The Washington Post 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 LA Times Daily 13 Mar 2020
Smooth-talking The Washington Post 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
Like sardines in a can New York Times 13 Nov 2019
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 The Washington Post 04 Feb 2019
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
Like an unwiped dipstick
Like some fried food
Like fish with lots of omega-3s
Unnervingly smooth
Suspiciously flattering, say
Smooth-talking
Slick, like a garage floor
Like a mechanic's rag
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
Like mechanics' rags
Grease-laden
Like greasy food
Like deep-fried turkey
Smooth-talking
Slick
Overly smooth-talking
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
Like auto shop floors
Too suave
Too smooth-talking
Like some driveway patches
Like bad fried food
Kind of boid that catches the woim?
Oleaginous
Like slick roads
Like a mechanic's hands, sometimes
Like a garage rag
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
Like some garage floors
Like sardines
Slick with lubricant
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
Too smooth-talking
Slick
Like some suntan lotion
Well-lubricated
Greasy
Like an auto repair shop floor
Well-lubricated
Fit for zits
Greasy
Overly greasy
Overly smooth-talking
Unctuous
Well lubricated
Unctuous
Butterlike
Greasy
Smarmy
In need of a shampoo, say
Not to be trusted
Smeared with grease
Word on some shampoo bottles
Like unwashed hair
Oozing with smarm
Overly flattering
Like mechanics' hands
Grease-filled
Smarmy
Like sulfuric acid
Overly suave
Like unwashed hair
Opposite of dry, as skin
Slick
Opposite of dry, as hair
Unctuous
Smarmy
Word on some shampoo bottles
Opposite of dry, as skin
Like a service station floor
Sebaceous thing on cake tray died off?
Smarmy
Excessively suave
Adjective on some shampoo bottles
Like some garage floors
Greasy
Like a dipstick
Like a service station floor
Like garage floors
Slick
Like a stereotypical used-car salesman
Like mechanics' hands
Overly smooth
Smarmy
Prone to acne, say
Hardly trustworthy
Like garage floors, often
Like a crankcase
Like a dipstick
Slick
Too suave
Like many sunscreens
Like a dipstick, sometimes
Pinguid
Unctuous
Suave to a fault
Problem skin type
Like a busy mechanic's rags
Suave to a fault
Like lipstick
Overly smooth
Like service station rags
Like potato chips
Like mechanics' hands
Like a grease monkey's rag
Overly suave
Like some hair
Way too suave
Greasy
Too suave
Greasy
Smooth-talking
Bootlicking
Unctuous
Like nitroglycerin
Opposite of dry, as hair
Unctuous
Not dry, as hair
Unctuous
Needing shampoo, say
Like margarine stains
Like some fried foods
Unguinous
Like creosote
Like a busy mechanic's rags
Heavily maintained, as hair
Like a mechanic's hands
Needing a shampoo
Smeared with grease
Like auto crankcases
Like creosote
Like margarine
Like some hair applications
Like creosote
Like some hair applications
Unctuous
Suave, and then some
Like hands after eating potato chips
Too smooth
Like a garage floor, say
Like an auto repair shop floor
Not dry, as hair
Like a scam artist
Slick
Like brilliantine
Like some driveways
Needing a shampoo
Like a garage floor, say
Full of grease
Like butter
Acne-prone
Like brilliantine
Unctuous
Like some salad dressings
Like some driveways
Like olives or peanuts
Like some garage floors
Like a garage floor
Like the floor of an auto repair shop
Like a crankcase
Like some garage floors
Way too smooth
Shampoo bottle spec
Like many a garage floor
Like auto shop floors
Like garage floors
Smarmy
Shampoo bottle spec
Overly suave
Unctuous
Suspiciously suave
Pretentiously suave
Unctuous
Smarmy
Lubricative
Overly suave
More than glib
Like a mechanic's rag
Overly suave
Like a freshly prepped baseball mitt, perhaps
Like a mechanic's rag
More than glib
Like unwashed hair, maybe
Unctuous
Word on some shampoo bottles
Slick
Like peanuts
Ingratiating
Mechanic's rag, after use
Bootlicking
Like a slick
Like creosote
Slick, physically or relationally
Suave to a fault
In need of a shampoo
Like a mechanic's rags
Pinguid
Slick
Unctuous
Like some salad dressings
Like cold cream
Like many salad dressings
Unctuous
Shampoo-bottle word
Slick with lubricant
Smooth-talking
Smarmy
Like service station rags
Not to be trusted
Like unwashed hair
Insincere
Sleazy
In need of a shampoo
Like grease monkeys' paws
Grease-filled
Smooth-tongued
Bootlicking
Pretentiously suave
Smooth
Overly smooth
Like auto shop floors
Hardly trustworthy
Like a slick road
Overly smooth
Too, too suave
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
Fat
"___ to bed . . . " (OPEC worker's slogan?)
Glib and suave
Covered with grease
Like canned sardines
Suave
Sea condition, at times
Like some Calif. shores
Ingratiating.
Slick.
Suave.
Buttery.
Unctuous.
Viscous.
Too smooth.
Insinuating.
Pinguid.
Slippery.
Deceitfully affable.
Smoothly subservient.
Bland.
Slick-mannered.
Unctious.
Smooth-tongued.
Smooth in manner.
Oleaginous.
Smooth-tongued
Slimy
Like garage floors
Like unwashed hair
Like auto shop floors
Slick
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