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A few, especially from the early years, are a bit unctuous.
"Let me just tell you one thing," he went on, getting unctuous.
He seemed anxious to please, but not in an unctuous way.
Carter smiled across at me like an unctuous big brother.
There was steel in his voice, for all its unctuous tones.
"And what better way," the captain said in an unctuous tone.
The voice was unctuous enough, but totally devoid of feeling.
There was something in the sound of the last word which roused the unctuous boy.
The unctuous voice had somehow the air of ending its speech.
Once inside he settled back and gave instructions to the unctuous driver.
The young man bowed again, an unctuous smile on his tips.
His unctuous tone irritated her, as always, but she tried not to let it show.
He was back on balance again, urbane and unctuous as ever.
But I could read nothing into his unctuous smile.
The preacher with the unctuous voice and the cash register heart.
This is clearly a sign of unctuous hypocrites at work.
I wouldn't use the unctuous one's book as toilet paper.
Accompanying the group should be at least one unctuous flunky.
His unctuous voice sounded like that of a salesman, someone used to serving.
In a flash the fat one abandoned his unctuous manner.
High and low, they are of an unctuous texture.
The man had a low, soft, almost unctuous voice.
Protective of its master, the dog refused to move her toward that unctuous voice.
When he spoke, his tone was as unctuous as ever.
But he was still not his usual unctuous self.