Oily - English meaning

adjective

Containing or tasting like butter.

Usage examples:

Layers of flaky buttery pastry

noun

A room in a college where food is kept and sold to students.

Usage examples:

The college buttery staff have told students that each silver tankard is worth £15,000.

adjective

Containing a large amount of fat.

Usage examples:

Fatty foods

noun

A fat person (often used as a nickname or form of address).

Usage examples:

Get moving, fatty!

adjective

Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection; obsequious.

Usage examples:

Fawning adoration

verb

(of a deer) produce young.

Usage examples:

The forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning

verb

(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour.

adjective

Full of praise and compliments.

Usage examples:

The article began with some flattering words about us

verb

Lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests.

Usage examples:

She was flattering him in order to avoid doing what he wanted

adjective

Making someone look or feel better or more attractive than usual

Usage examples:

That suit is flattering on you.

adjective

Complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree.

Usage examples:

The press are embarrassingly fulsome in their appreciation

adjective

(of words or a speaker) fluent but insincere and shallow.

Usage examples:

The glib phrases soon roll off the tongue

adjective

Covered with, resembling, or produced by grease or oil.

Usage examples:

He wiped his greasy fingers

adjective

Covered with or full of grease

Usage examples:

These french fries are too greasy.

adjective

Intended to gain approval or favour; sycophantic.

Usage examples:

An ingratiating manner

verb

Bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them.

Usage examples:

A sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy

adjective

Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

Usage examples:

They were served by obsequious waiters

adjective

Too eager to serve or obey someone

Usage examples:

She is embarrassingly obsequious to anyone in authority.

adjective

Rich in, covered with, or producing oil; oily.

Usage examples:

Fabrics would quickly become filthy in this oleaginous kingdom

adjective

Extremely polite, kind, or helpful in a false way that is intended to bring some advantage to yourself

adjective

Of, like, or containing soap; soapy.

Usage examples:

Its root is saponaceous, and is pounded into a pulp and used instead of soap by the natives.

adjective

Having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.

Usage examples:

He bowed his head in a servile manner

adjective

Eager to serve and please someone else in a way that shows a lack of respect for yourself

Usage examples:

As a waiter, you want to be pleasant to people without appearing servile.

adjective

Covered by or resembling slime.

Usage examples:

Thick, slimy mud

adjective

Ingratiating and wheedling in a way that is regarded as insincere or excessive.

Usage examples:

A smarmy, unctuous reply

adjective

Extremely polite or helpful or showing a lot of respect in a way that is annoying or does not seem sincere

Usage examples:

She was trying to be friendly, but she just seemed smarmy and insincere.

adjective

Having an even and regular surface; free from perceptible projections, lumps, or indentations.

Usage examples:

Smooth flat rocks

verb

Give (something) a flat, regular surface or appearance.

Usage examples:

She smoothed out the newspaper

adverb

In a way that is without difficulties.

Usage examples:

The course of true love never did run smooth

adjective

Containing or covered with soap.

Usage examples:

Hot soapy water

noun

A soap opera.

Usage examples:

The iconic northern english soapie, coronation street

adjective

Containing soap

Usage examples:

Wash your hands in soapy water.

adjective

Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.

Usage examples:

She was subservient to her parents

adjective

Willing to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of other people

Usage examples:

In the past, women were viewed as subservient to men., your subservience to your boss disgusts me.

adjective

Willing to do what another person, organization, etc. wants, and considering your aims or wishes to be less important than those of others

Usage examples:

A subservient position/role, subservient to sb/sth critics say the federal aviation agency remains …

adjective

Very bad or unpleasant

Usage examples:

Sorry to hear you're having such a sucky time., running was a huge part of his life, so it's pretty…

adjective

Behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage.

Usage examples:

A sycophantic interview

adjective

(of a person or of behaviour) praising people in authority in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them

Usage examples:

There was sycophantic laughter from the audience at every one of his terrible jokes.

adjective

Excessively flattering or ingratiating; oily.

Usage examples:

He seemed anxious to please but not in an unctuous way

adjective

Unctuous people or behaviour expresses too much praise, interest, friendliness, etc., in a way that is false and unpleasant

Usage examples:

His unctuous manner/voice/smile