oily
adjective
smeared or covered with oil; greasy.
oilily
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a word derived from
oily.
Example Sentences
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She spilled the mixed wines over the side, watched them spread oilily among float ing cables of flowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She posed with absolute self-possession before the stricken buyer, who stood, tongue-tied and motionless, while Zizzbaum orated oilily of the styles.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
Don't look so grim, old man," he said, oilily, "they'll not make you put it up.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen
Sometimes the clean tablecloth of white which covered a little loch, was cut by a round black "well-eye" through which a spring oozed oilily, refusing to freeze.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The incoming tide glistened oilily as it rolled over the mud flats.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
