unctuous
adjective
characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug.
unctuousness
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a word derived from
unctuous.
Example Sentences
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And we're adding unctuousness and umami and savoriness to it because I don't want something that's cloying or sweet.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024
It’s got tang and salt and a plush unctuousness that shouldn’t be relegated to Moroccan tagines.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2020
If you eat it right away, taking advantage of its peak warm, crunchy, salty unctuousness, you won’t even wish it were pizza—which is good, because there’s no pizza here.
From The New Yorker ● May 31, 2019
The Hotaling’s 11 Year Old is smooth and sweet, with more of bourbon’s unctuousness than rye’s sting of pepper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2018
As Alexei grew older, and the hemorrhages more life threatening, Alexandra began to rely on a Russian monk of legendary unctuousness, Grigory Rasputin, who promised to heal the czar-to-be.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
