oily
/ˈɔɪli/ adjective B1- Covered with or containing oil. · oily machinery; oily rags; oily fish; oily cooking
- Resembling oil. · oily swells; oily seas
- Excessively friendly or polite but insincere. · Near-synonyms: slick, buttery, oleaginous, unctuous; smarmy
Comparative oilier · Superlative oiliest
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Anne looked at the wicked green depths below her, wavering with long, oily shadows, and shivered.
But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer.
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