Unctuousness

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Unctuous means oily or greasy, either literally or metaphorically.

[edit] Examples

• The lunch ladies were as unctuous as their food.
• In a Sherlock Holmes novel, the name of which I do not recall, a certain villain was described as having as unctuous a personality as his hair.
• In Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, pupils "steal the butter of the more impetuous, and make to themselves an unctuous feast"

[edit] See also

• Extreme Unction

The novel, Moby Dick, by Herman Melville where he uses the word often to describe his shipmates and the whaling industry in general.