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He had dropped his unctuous tone and his smile now.† (source)
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Varys gave the king an unctuous smile and laid a soft hand on Ned's sleeve.† (source)
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Unguent, unctuous, sumptuous, voluptuous, salacious, lubricious, delicious, went the inside of Jimmy's head.† (source)
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They stood paralyzed by their anger; but the major stepped smartly forward to greet Owen; the chauffeur opened the tailgate of the long, silver-gray hearse; and the mortician became the unctuous delegate of death—the busybody it was his nature to be.† (source)
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Words like: viscous, impunity, paroxysm, unctuous, nefarious, onanistic, perfidious, lugubrious.† (source)
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Baby Kochamma recognized at once the immense potential of the situation, but immediately anointed her thoughts with unctuous oils.† (source)
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That's the huge Chinese who's always polite — unctuous, actually, but rather sincere.† (source)
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I made my voice unctuously polite.† (source)
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His voice was as soft and sympathetic as a mortician's but with no unctuousness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Cedric-his black jeans and long-sleeved black pullover shirt conspicuous in a sea of khakis and blazers, a long piece of celery with goat cheese (he hates goat cheese) dangling from his long fingers-offers a sickly smile to the unctuous eyes.† (source)
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MRS. KREBS (Unctuously, to HORNBECK) You're a stranger, aren't you, mister?† (source)
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Then up comes Maryann; throws the loose locks into the middle of the fleece, rolls it up, and carries it into the background as three-and-a-half pounds of unadulterated warmth for the winter enjoyment of persons unknown and far away, who will, however, never experience the superlative comfort derivable from the wool as it here exists, new and pure—before the unctuousness of its nature whilst in a living state has dried, stiffened, and been washed out—rendering it just now as superior to anything WOOLLEN as cream is superior to milk-and-water.† (source)
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General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile.† (source)
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Our d'gods, Holger," he said unctuously.† (source)
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Many of them came out to look after him, and to observe to one another, with great unctuousness, that he was 'pulled down by it.'† (source)
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The Reverend Dameron, a Dickensian personage, an unctuous and jolly brimstone-and-damnation orator, was minister of the Grandview Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas, the church the Andrews family attended regularly.† (source)
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