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oily

adjective

1 oily

Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil:
— Oily fried potatoes.

synonyms: greasy, oleaginous, sebaceous.

Roget 174: moderate; lenient etc. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered etc. ... show more

Roget 894: courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined ... show more

Roget 255: smooth; polished etc. v.; leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level etc. 213; plane etc. ... show more

Roget 355: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, ... show more

Polish: oleisty

2 oily

Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech:
— An oily sycophantic press agent.

synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous.

Roget 933: flattering etc. v.; adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious; ... show more

Roget 886: servile, obsequious; supple, supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, ... show more

3 oily

Coated or covered with oil.

Polish: oleisty

4 oily

Smeared or soiled with grease or oil:
— Get rid of rubbish and oily rags.

synonym: greasy.

Polish: tłusty, zatłuszczony, przetłuszczony


Moby thesaurus: Pecksniffian, adipose, adulatory, bland, blandishing, blarneying, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cajoling, canting, chrismal, chrismatory, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, disarming, fair-spoken, fat, fatty ... show more.

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