Crossword clues for oiliest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oily \Oil"y\, a. [Compar. Oilier; superl. Oiliest.]
Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance.
--Bacon.Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.
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Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating. ``This oily rascal.''
--Shak.His oily compliance in all alterations.
--Fuller.Oily grain (Bot.), the sesame.
Oily palm, the oil palm.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativeoily)
WordNet
adj. containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds" [syn: greasy, sebaceous, oleaginous]
unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn: buttery, fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous]
coated or covered with oil; "oily puddles in the streets"
smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags" [syn: greasy]
See oily
Usage examples of "oiliest".
Sabbath and they were on their way to public worship, her companion would have exerted all her powers of oiliest persuasion to appease her.
I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners.
Flames lick at the oiliest parts of the slick, creeping toward the survivors.
Surely the veriest puritan, the oiliest Chadband of them all, will allow a humble scribbler, at so cheap a yearly rate, to purchase wisdom, not unmixed with tolerance, at the gilded shrine of Fors Fortuna!
As she knelt to pick up the darkest, oiliest rocks with which to cook her supper, pebbles fell from above her and a small blue dragon slid out of a cleft.
He was a runt of a man in his mid-thirties, with the oiliest hair Delorme had ever seen.