| 词汇 | unctuous |
| 释义 | unctuous adjective formaldisapprovinguk /ˈʌŋk.tʃu.əs/ us /ˈʌŋk.tʃu.əs/ Unctuous people or behaviour expresses too much praise, interest, friendliness, etc., in a way that is false and unpleasant: 谄媚的;虚情假意的 his unctuous manner/voice/smile他那虚情假意的举止／声音／笑容 Synonyms fulsomeformal oily oleaginousformal smarmyinformaldisapproving Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery glad-handing grovel grovelling grovellingly massage someone's egoidiom obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone sycophantic sycophantically toady toadying truckle Examples of unctuousunctuous Effluvia were imagined as elastic threads, unctuous in nature. Saponaceous is used to mean unctuous as well as physically soapy, fumigation to mean tobacco-smoking. It was graceful as it always is, and unctuous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I appeal that there should be no unctuous attitude about the matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its dreams, once so bright, have been so pawed by unctuous hands that their glory has departed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be inevitable, but do not let us have any unctuous hypocrisy about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think we are going to build up international confidence by approaching other nations in a spirit of unctuous self-righteousness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If there was unctuous cohesion, it does not seem to be present in this debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He can sometimes be pompous, occasionally unctuous, but he is a man of enormous sincerity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to appear to be in any way unctuous or sanctimonious, but this is a matter of public duty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Stop being so unctuous and tell the truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I never said that he had unctuous rectitude. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The most it emitted was an unctuous growl, of which we have heard some repetitions to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was one spasm of reality, and what a contrast it made with the unctuous inanity which characterised most of his speech on defence policy this afternoon. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In one of his usual unctuous approches to the nationalist parties, he sought to say that there would be plenty of time for debating the issue of ship-repairing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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