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unctuosity
noun as in grease
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Although soft to the touch, the common clay wants unctuosity, properly so called.
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What he has missed is dignity: his pitfalls have been unctuosity, on the one side, bravado on the other.
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It has in part the unctuosity of bees' wax, and somewhat of the brittleness of resin.
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If they be but heated so as to boil, they become acrid, lose much of their unctuosity, and acquire a very pungent odour.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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