oily
adjective
smeared or covered with oil; greasy.
oiliest
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superlativeof oily.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Deravian remembers her mother standing at the stove, snacking on the stubborn scraps still left in the pot: “The crackliest, oiliest, tastiest bits.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Oil is the dirtiest industry in the world and Chevron, one the world's largest companies, must be the oiliest.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2011
Bodanzky is, at the same time, the gayest and j oiliest of companions, who gives huge laughter to comic tales and sits like a great paladin to watch a game of cards.
From Time Magazine Archive
He edged close and dropped his voice to the oiliest whisper: "You'll say dat good word now to Miss Cleo right away, sah?"
From The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South by Thomas Dixon
"Parsifal," he declared, with true Celtic love of exaggeration, "to be the oiliest flattery ever poured down the open throat of a liquorish humanity."
From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore
