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.