| 单词 | oleaginous |
| 释义 | oleaginous (once / 34560 pages) 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 FAMILYoleaginous: oleaginously, oleaginousness USAGE EXAMPLESThe 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 2oleaginous seeds Syn greasy, oily, sebaceous fat, fatty containing or composed of fat 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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