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Unctuous in sentence

12 examples of Unctuous in a sentence

It is fatty, it's sweet, it's silky, it's unctuous.
It was sweet, it was unctuous.
Bay Area residents probably remember Paul from The Diamond Center, an unctuous late night huckster who flogged easy credit and cheap rocks on late night television throughout the 1980s and early 90s.
This movie begins like a primer for film students on Irish cinematic cliches: unctuous priests, spitting before handshakes, town square cattle marts, cycling by country meadows to the backdrop of anodyne folk music.
John Ireland is Rose's new hubby, secretly working for unctuous Allison Hayes (yes, the 50-foot woman).
Kaplan isn't trying to be funny as opposed to an overly unctuous Ray Romano and everyone else offering self-conscious caricatures as opposed to real people.
Joseph Schildkraut's portrayal of d'Orleans is a classic study in unctuous treachery.
A motley group of people are forced to seek shelter at a remote inn run by the snooty, sarcastic, but suave Amos Bradford (a perfectly unctuous George Zucco) because of a raging thunderstorm that has flooded out the bridge and the roads alike.
Joseph Schildkraut rounds out the leading roles as the unctuous and oily Duke of Orleans.
In those phrases, you can almost hear the New England Puritans’ unctuous sermonizing about the seduction of Eve by the serpent, and her subsequent temptation of Adam.
McConnell’s unctuous casuistry represents precisely the opposite.
There was something in the sound of the last word which roused the unctuous boy.