In a sentence
Six example sentences with unctuous, each labelled with its topic.
The salesman's unctuous compliments about my watch made me read the contract twice before signing anything at all.
Business
Dickens gives Uriah Heep an unctuous humility, forever calling himself humble while calculating what the performance will earn him.
Literature
Six hours of slow braising leaves the pork shoulder unctuous, coating the spoon in a way lean cuts never manage.
Cooking
The lobbyist's unctuous praise for the committee chair, repeated at every hearing, fooled nobody and annoyed everyone.
Politics
The actor plays the unctuous hotel manager perfectly, bowing too low and calling every guest a treasured friend of the house.
Movies
The unctuous agent told the rookie he was the best prospect in a decade, then said the same to the next three.
Basketball
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