unctuous
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Unctuous platitudes about its being a time of forgiveness and new beginnings regularly stall the movie in its tracks.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011
Unctuous CNN personality Piers Morgan was the editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror until he was forced to resign after printing hoax images of British soldiers abusing detainees.
From Salon • Jul. 26, 2011
Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unctuous implies excessive smoothness, as though one's manner were oiled.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
Unctuous sarcasm so sustained as to deceive the very elect, and "affectation of the tone of indignant orthodoxy," have a tendency to grow rancid in the passage of years, and to become exceedingly unappetizing.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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