oleaginous

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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

Naturally, the oleaginous Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, got in on the act:

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2022

Even the oil and the vinegar mix in the caster—that is, I judge they do from the oleaginous appearance of the vinegar.

From The Inventions of the Idiot by Bangs, John Kendrick