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unctuousness
noun as in flattery
Strong matches
noun as in hypocrisy
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in lip service
noun as in pharisaism
Weak matches
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- two-facedness
noun as in phoniness
Weak matches
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- two-facedness
noun as in sanctimoniousness
Strong matches
noun as in sanctimony
Strong matches
noun as in tartuffery
Weak matches
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- two-facedness
noun as in two-facedness
Weak matches
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
Example Sentences
Result: America goes to bed intellectually refreshed, rather than dulled by celebrity unctuousness.
To such a mind there is no unctuousness, by which ideas may be fastened upon others without their assent.
He smiled as he spoke with the unctuousness of a villain administering poison in a bouquet of roses.
Its words drop fatness, its face oozes with unctuousness, its eyes swim with dews of mirth.
His predominating characteristic was an oily sleekness; the very voice of him was smooth with unctuousness.
The tutor breathed more freely, and, rid of the fear of being overheard, regained a little of his unctuousness.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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