Voorbeelden van unctuous

• 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.

• I appeal that there should be no unctuous attitude about the matter.

• Its dreams, once so bright, have been so pawed by unctuous hands that their glory has departed.

• It may be inevitable, but do not let us have any unctuous hypocrisy about it.

• I do not think we are going to build up international confidence by approaching other nations in a spirit of unctuous self-righteousness.

• If there was unctuous cohesion, it does not seem to be present in this debate.

• He can sometimes be pompous, occasionally unctuous, but he is a man of enormous sincerity.

• I do not want to appear to be in any way unctuous or sanctimonious, but this is a matter of public duty.

• Stop being so unctuous and tell the truth.

• I never said that he had unctuous rectitude.

• The most it emitted was an unctuous growl, of which we have heard some repetitions to-day.

• 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.

• 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.