greasily
- a word derived from greasy.
Example Sentences
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Someone at the start of a promising career in journalism who is so aggressively flattering and greasily evasive, with a snap-on, snakelike, aw-shucks smile, has got to have a scheme up his sleeve.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024
It was less clear that the greasily reliable New York slice, baked at lower heat in gas ovens and consumed on the sidewalk by guys like Tony Manero, belonged to any culinary tradition at all.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
Firm and muscular, yet given to melting greasily in the mouth, the all-powerful salt and vinegar McCoy’s is, perhaps, the ultimate crisp sandwich filling.
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2019
She fends off awkward banter—an awful friend coos, greasily, “We’re always talking about the people who come forward, but we never talk about the ones who get left behind”—but her status is never fully explained.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
She had long red hair that fell rather greasily to her waist, and when she sidled up to Gilly on the playground, the first thing Gilly noticed was how dirty her fingernails were.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
