All 4 Uses of
unctuous
in
Arrowsmith
- In the parlors he was unctuously received by the pastor and a committee of three, wearing morning clothes and a manner of Christian intellectuality.†
Chpt 20 *
- He who had never been unctuous was profuse and hearty as he urged her, "Been home all day?†
Chpt 21
- Rippleton Holabird was the most unctuous of the office seekers, and the most hungry.†
Chpt 30
- As a matter of routine, certainly not as a thing connected with the deaths from what the skipper had called influenza, the crew of the Pendown Castle put rat-shields on the mooring hawsers, but they did not take up the gang-plank at night, and now and then a rat slithered ashore to find among its kin in Blackwater more unctuous fare than hardwood lumber.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(unctuous) unpleasantly and insincerely charming or ingratiating in manner or speech