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How to use unctuosity in a sentence
Although soft to the touch, the common clay wants unctuosity, properly so called.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UreWhat he has missed is dignity: his pitfalls have been unctuosity, on the one side, bravado on the other.
A Book of Scoundrels | Charles WhibleyIt has in part the unctuosity of bees' wax, and somewhat of the brittleness of resin.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom | P. L. Simmonds
If they be but heated so as to boil, they become acrid, lose much of their unctuosity, and acquire a very pungent odour.
Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. | Pierre Joseph Macquer
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