unctuous

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unctuous englannista suomeksi

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unctuous englanniksi

Of a liquid, semisolid, or other substance: having the nature or properties of an unguent or ointment; greasy, oily.

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(RQ:Jonson Alchemist)
(RQ:Boyle Air)
(RQ:Goldsmith History of the Earth)
(RQ:Shelley Prometheus Unbound)
(RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop)
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
(RQ:Hawthorne Our Old Home) on either side of which is the omnipresent image of the Bear and Ragged Staff, three feet high, and excellently carved in oak, now black with time and unctuous kitchen-smoke.
Having fat or oil present; fatty, greasy, oily.
(RQ:Elyot Castel of Helth)
(RQ:Milton Of Reformation) warming their Palace Kitchins, and from thence their unctuous, and epicurean paunches, with the almes of the blind, the lame, the impotent, the aged, the orfan, the widow, (..)
(RQ:Cowper Homer)
(RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers)
(RQ:Emerson English Traits)
Of an aroma or taste, or a beverage (such as coffee or wine) or food (such as gravy, meat, or sauce): having layers of concentrated, velvety flavour; lush, rich.
(RQ:Grew Plants) Contrary to an ''Unctuous Taſte'', are ''Aſtringent'', and ''Pungent''; as in ''Galls'', and ''Spirit'' of ''Sal Aromanick''.
(RQ:Bayard Taylor Beauty)
(RQ:Guardian)|title=Things that make you go yum|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530112235/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/28/features11.g24|date=28 January 2000|passage="Unctuous is probably quite a good description, but there's a sweetness, too, and a mouthfeel," ventures (w), chef at the Fat Duck at Bray.
Of soil: soft and sticky.
(RQ:Evelyn Earth)
(RQ:Mortimer Husbandry)
(RQ:Robertson America)
(RQ:Hawthorne Our Old Home)
Of a person:
Complacent, self-satisfied, smug.
Profusely polite, especially in an insincere and unpleasant manner.
(RQ:Dickens Dombey)
(RQ:Trollope Barchester Towers)
(RQ:Leacock Hohenzollerns)
(RQ:Heller Catch-22)