oleaginous

Example Sentences

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Ragoravich is predictably oleaginous, a man with a file cabinet full of hidden agendas, but he is charmingly persuasive, and the money has already been wired into Maggie’s account.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

But the most villainous entity they encounter is a duplicitous schemer played with oleaginous insincerity by Hugh Grant.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2023

The interludes make for juicy lampoons of that unfortunate Western export, oleaginous showbiz faux-intimacy.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

Broadbent is unafraid of the oleaginous side of Gloucester, the way his mistreatment of his bastard son signals a smug complacency, which he then must break through to help his former king in secret.

From Slate • Sep. 28, 2018

A short squat man, with an oleaginous face and remarkably bushy eyebrows, was in the act of weighing out a pennyworth of "sweeties" to a little girl as I entered.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various