oleaginous

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times

But then I realized that there was something familiar about the actor playing Sir Robert Greene, an oleaginous nobleman who detests Shakespeare.

From Washington Post

Some years ago, I worked for a man several decades older than me who consistently made oleaginous and sexualised comments to me and the other young women in our workplace.

From The Guardian

In a quiet neighborhood near Google’s headquarters last month, rusty, oleaginous sewage was seeping from a parked recreational vehicle onto the otherwise pristine street.

From Los Angeles Times

The oleaginous friendship between Trump and the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, encompasses far more than an irrational desire for continued carnage in Yemen.

From The Guardian