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Word "UNCTUOUS" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Synonyms:
buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy
Examples:
the unctuous Uriah Heep

Crossword Clues for UNCTUOUS

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Obsequiously flattering, oily The Times Concise 09 May 2025
Offensively suave (8)
Slimily ingratiating (8)
Fawning Wall Street Journal 23 Jul 2024
Excessively ingratiating in manner (8)
Very flattering or ingratiating (8)
Offensively glib way university will count us out (8)
Slippery or greasy (8)
Having an oily feel that's unpleasantly flattering (8)
Smarmily ingratiating (8)
Smarmily ingratiating The Guardian Quick 03 Jan 2024
Overly slick New York Times 23 Jun 2023
Smarmy The Times Concise 20 Nov 2022
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating Irish Times Simplex 14 Mar 2022
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating Irish Times Simplex 25 Jan 2021
Uncut version out initially from America is excessively flattering Irish Times Crosaire 31 Dec 2020
Oily The Telegraph Quick 25 Feb 2020
Sycophantic global organisation caught out over America
Excessively ingratiating The Times Concise 10 Oct 2018
Excessively ingratiating Irish Times Simplex 07 Sep 2018
Affecting an oily charm The Telegraph General Knowledge 19 Aug 2018
Ingratiating The Times Concise 05 Aug 2018
Oily uranium counts varied round university
Ingratiating The Guardian Speedy 20 May 2017
Excessively ingratiating The Chronicle of Higher Education 10 Mar 2017
Excessively ingratiating
A French scout mistakenly embracing unionist that's smarmy
Sickeningly suave Universal 13 Jul 2015
Greasy The Telegraph Quick 11 Jun 2015
Sickeningly suave
Smarmy count peculiar about university in front of American
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