The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unctuous \Unc"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [F. onctueux, LL. unctuosus, fr. L. unctus anointment, fr. ungere, unctum, to anoint. See Unguent.]
Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. ``The unctuous cheese.''
--Longfellow.Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals.
Bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or fervid. [1913 Webster] -- Unc"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Unc"tu*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. Insincerely and excessively charming
WordNet
Usage examples of "unctuously".
The man bowed unctuously, heaved himself to his feet, and waddled away.
She glanced away as her chief cook came unctuously through the garden and her heart sank a little more.
Reuban smiled unctuously and shrugged his shoulders in an admirable imitation of Ikey.
He pushed the button to open the door, part of his mind expecting to find himself looking at an ornate lobby with red velvet curtains and crystal chandeliers, a throng of elegant boulevardiers parading before them, with a bewigged flunkey in a frogged brocade coat and knee breeches bowing unctuously to greet Emily and himself to the restaurant.
Next, two friendly simpering hounds crawled out of a diteh, and, limping badly from broken legs and crippled hips, from BB or real gunshot wounds, they cringed along--tails between their legs--at his heels, whining unctuously, half-creeping, half-slinking, looking up at him beggingly from the sides of their whitened eyeballs, flinching whenever he just slightly stumbled or gave them an angry glance.
Eventually, if unctuously, he came to the point: there had been an unhappy misunderstanding here in Galesville, innocent people had been victimized but justice had now been done and Sister John, Miss Witkowski and Mr.