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单词 oleaginous
释义
oleaginous
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1adj 2adj

If your archenemy remarks on your oleaginous skin, she's not giving you a compliment. She's calling you oily-faced.
You can impress your friends by commenting on how disgustingly oleaginous your pizza is, or despair over the oleaginous state of an ocean bay after an oil spill. Either way, you're using a fancy word for greasy or oily. And if you run into a particularly slick car salesman, you can describe him as oleaginous too. The adjective oleaginous comes from the Latin root oleaginus, "of the olive."
WORD FAMILY
oleaginous: oleaginously, oleaginousness
USAGE EXAMPLES
The adjective “oleaginous” might have been invented to describe Pence’s performance with Trump on “60 Minutes”:
Washington Post(Jul 22, 2016)
An oleaginous master of ceremonies narrates the process.
The New Yorker(Jun 13, 2016)
Negan was again invoked by an oleaginous minion who, played by the quality character actor Christopher Berry, seemed like he might turn into a fixture.
New York Times(Feb 14, 2016)
1
adj containing an unusual amount of grease or oil
oleaginous seeds
Syn
greasy, oily, sebaceous
fat, fatty
containing or composed of fat
2
adj unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
oleaginous hypocrisy
Syn
buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous
insincere
lacking sincerity
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