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Smug self-serving earnestness
Answer for the clue "Smug self-serving earnestness ", 8 letters:
oiliness
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Word definitions for oiliness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oiliness \Oil"i*ness\, n. The quality of being oily. --Bacon.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. consisting of or covered with oil [syn: greasiness , oleaginousness ] smug self-serving earnestness [syn: fulsomeness , oleaginousness , smarminess , unctuousness , unction ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the quality of being oily
Usage examples of oiliness.
But Chaikhe concentrated deliberately on the horror of Gerlach, his oiliness, the grotesqueries of his waddling gait and panting wheezes for breath, learning what m'metanei called hate, a disunity beyond e-takkhe, a desire beyond vaikka-nasul, a lust beyond reason.