unctuousness

Example Sentences

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Mendelsohn and Lesser have the luxury of playing to type here, with the former channeling his version of Imperial unctuousness and the latter lending a professorial chill to his acceptance of unconscionable orders.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025

It’s got tang and salt and a plush unctuousness that shouldn’t be relegated to Moroccan tagines.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2020

If you eat it right away, taking advantage of its peak warm, crunchy, salty unctuousness, you won’t even wish it were pizza—which is good, because there’s no pizza here.

From The New Yorker • May 31, 2019

The Hotaling’s 11 Year Old is smooth and sweet, with more of bourbon’s unctuousness than rye’s sting of pepper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2018

As Alexei grew older, and the hemorrhages more life threatening, Alexandra began to rely on a Russian monk of legendary unctuousness, Grigory Rasputin, who promised to heal the czar-to-be.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee