| 单词 | oily |
| 释义 | oily (once / 2341 pages) adj Oily things are greasy, slippery, or covered with oil — think a bowl of oily pasta or the oily garage floor after you've been tinkering with your motorcycle's engine. Anything containing oil, covered in oil, or resembling oil is oily. A batch of muffins might taste weirdly oily when you use too much butter, and the rags lying around a car repair shop are mostly black and oily. Your brother's hair will probably be pretty oily after he refuses to wash it for a month. Since the sixteenth century, oily has also had the figurative meaning of "insincerely flattering or slick," like an oily car salesman. WORD FAMILYoily: oilier, oiliest, oilily, oiliness+/oil: oiled, oiler, oiling, oils, oily/oiled: unoiled/oiler: oilers USAGE EXAMPLESHe’s a very unctuous, oily, truly horrific villain who the audience will enjoy despising. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) By the next day, nearby creeks were teeming with oily, black waste. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) We grab chopsticks, anoint ourselves with oily string beans and fill a lazy Susan with enough Chinese food to ensure days of leftover noshing. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) 1adj containing an unusual amount of grease or oil oily fried potatoes Syn greasy, oleaginous, sebaceous fat, fatty containing or composed of fat 2adj coated or covered with oil oily puddles in the streets Syn coated having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination 3adj smeared or soiled with grease or oil get rid of rubbish and oily rags Syn greasy dirty, soiled, unclean soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime 4adj unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech an oily sycophantic press agent Syn buttery, fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous insincere lacking sincerity |
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