“You are a great man,” Arafat said, turning on his insincere, oleaginous charm.
It also gives it an oleaginous mouthfeel that I don't like in soup.
She will almost never be praised in public except by oleaginous flatterers desperate for social advantage.
Kissinger, at his oleaginous best, tries to reassure Nixon that, whatever the press says, the bombing achieved its intention.
"That's part of my business," he heard Burnham say in his sleek, oleaginous accents.
Religion is for the oleaginous, the fat-bellied, chylesaturated devotees of the table.
In the Fero Islands candles are made from this oleaginous matter.
The presence of soluble salts in an emulsion is apt to occasion the separation of the oleaginous portion.
Mr. Hardie did not at first see the exact purport of this oleaginous periphrasis.
oleaginous matter floated on its surface, with which the Indians anointed their heads.
1630s, from French oléagineux (14c.), from Latin oleaginus "of the olive," from olea "olive," alteration of oliva (see olive) by influence of oleum "oil."
oleaginous o·le·ag·i·nous (ō'lē-āj'ə-nəs)
adj.
Oily; greasy.
