All 3 Uses of
unctuous
in
Main Street
- They admire his unctuousness.†
Chpt 13 *
- The good neighbor charged into the living-room, waving the most unctuous of black kid gloves and delightedly sputtering: "You may well ask how I am!†
Chpt 32
- A booming semi-city with parks and clever architects, visited by famous pianists and unctuous lecturers, but irritable from a struggle between union labor and the manufacturers' association, so that in even the gayest of the new houses there was a ceaseless and intimidating heresy-hunt.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(unctuous) unpleasantly and insincerely charming or ingratiating in manner or speech