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"unctuous" Definitions
  1. friendly or giving praise in a way that is not sincere and that is therefore unpleasant
"unctuous" Synonyms
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144 Sentences With "unctuous"

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Will Arnett is back, and game, as April's unctuous former colleague.
Deviled eggs are topped by strips of unctuous thick-cut bacon.
Critics described him variously as pompous, sycophantic, unctuous, oleaginous and obsequious.
Only the chocolate chip and the unctuous Snickerdoodle are available for purchase. Cruel.
"Taste this," he says, swooping a spoonful of unctuous ragu into your mouth.
"Wouldn't you like to know the story of you?" the unctuous announcer asks.
The expressions of mutual admiration that permeated the Oval Office were borderline unctuous.
It remains to be seen if Zelensky's quid pro unctuous quo will pay off.
Still, Shapiro's unctuous piety towards Andrew Breitbart shows how compromised the ex-Breitbartians are.
Hader did another take, this one so unctuous it felt soaked in Drakkar Noir.
MPs spent much of it singing his praises, sometimes in the most unctuous terms.
We were especially surprised by the quality of the unctuous, fully flavored foie gras.
The pork emerges tender, moist and flavorful, and the fennel-onion compote delightfully unctuous.
But none has those faults in the kind of unctuous quintessence you find at Uber.
He does the awards-season circuit without seeming unctuous, and he's always professional on set.
Again, it's not the question itself, but the unctuous eagerness with which she asks it.
Disco's revenge plot may be nearly complete (Justin Timberlake's unctuous "Can't Stop the Feeling" aside).
I think it would be pretty lip-smacky for a midwinter feast, super unctuous, really strong.
Britain's otherness was good for Europe, a welcome speck of liberal grit in the unctuous continental oyster.
Even hardcore conservatives still stewing over the shabby defenestration of Robert Bork find Cruz cloying and unctuous.
Rather than imported Arborio rice, this dish owes its unctuous texture to locally grown Japanese Nishiki grains.
Ted Cruz isn't merely an unctuous politician who will say whatever it takes to win; he's Lyin' Ted.
A mercurial leader, unctuous one moment, bitingly critical the next, Sheriff Shoar didn't countenance challenges to his authority.
One excruciating scene features Jane complaining to an unctuous human resources officer (Matthew Macfadyen) about — well, what, exactly?
Dried fish skins decorate the walls; bones from the morning's fish go straight into the evening's unctuous broth.
Even when he's succeeding, he still comes across as unctuous and slimy, perpetually bathed in his own flop-sweat.
Normally, I'm used to them being cooked with salty bacon in an unctuous buttery sauce, or poached in cream.
"There is something wrong with the person who doesn't like the unctuous sounding 'moist,' " Dale, a Wisconsin resident, wrote.
Even hours after their unctuous breakfast, they displayed high levels of triglycerides and blood sugar and low insulin sensitivity.
Compare the sharpness of his rapping voice to his unctuous singing, which wobbles gauchely between velvety sigh and velvety whine.
The flavor is deeper and more intense than any steak I've tasted before and the fat is creamy and unctuous.
For dinner, have an unctuous, tangy bratwurst or smoked Polish kielbasa, served on a heaping pile of sauerkraut and potatoes.
Even if you're not a spice-head, you'll need some bang against the unctuous creaminess of the coconut milk. No?
But as you savor that salty, briny, unctuous glob, appreciate the little beast for all the wonders it can do.
Some readers will be aghast that chapters end with bullet-point summaries and questions, evoking the worst of unctuous business tomes.
It's a heavy, unctuous broth, but because Rubiana ensures the hunk of Colombian beef is well-sourced, it's not too greasy.
Smug, unctuous, fueled by hatred and obsessed with fear: These were the shining qualities of Trump's acceptance speech on Thursday night.
The beef was soft with crisp edges, with a funkiness to it that matched the sweet, unctuous quality of the sauce.
"I want people to taste the pungent unctuous, real Filipino flavors," she writes, which are confidently funky, highly acidic and coyly sweet.
They opened my eyes to the unctuous tang of chicken liver mousse and the delightfully unholy combination of potato chips and caviar.
Also at the resort are an unctuous waiter played by Jonah Hill and an friendly concierge — and love interest — played by Mila Kunis.
It's a creamy, decadent affair, with the unctuous fish swimming in a herby bitterness of mugwort, tickled with the sweetness of the tomato.
Yet even as chefs weave the unctuous rot of fermented flavors into their dishes, few have undertaken it with Emde's all-encompassing fixation.
Barely softened by the heat, they served to offset the deep, unctuous quality of the short ribs, the chewiness of the rice cakes.
Clad by Patricia E. Doherty, the costume designer, in nondescript blacks and grays, Melissa Macleod Herion's Tracy appears to be an unctuous little nobody.
But pitting Christian Bale and Matt Damon against unctuous men in suits is an easier formula than squeezing the drama out of a dyno.
The way in which this nation's unctuous elements tend to trickle down as if Florida were the grease trap under America's George Foreman grill.
Word of the Day : unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech _________ The word unctuous has appeared in 22 articles on nytimes.
He dispatched Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for an unctuous mission to thank King Salman for his commitment to a "thorough" and "transparent" investigation.
Then word comes that Adrian has committed suicide, leaving Cecilia a small fortune administered by Adrian's shifty, unctuous brother (Michael Dorman, giving good sleaze).
The unctuous broth from the reindeer stew is poured into cups, and we pick through bones and cartilage to uncover tender chunks of meat.
Sirens and bullhorns pierce the nighttime quiet of an ordinary suburban cul-de-sac as an unctuous, trench-coated figure advances on a frightened family.
Playing for the Brisbane Heat in the KFC Big Bash League (which somehow seems way less unctuous coming from Down Under), Lynn crushed the ball.
When it is added to a base of tender squid simmered with onions, garlic and tomato, the resulting sauce is sweet, round, deep and unctuous.
He also inspired an unctuous Dickens character, URIAH Heep, who inspired the name of a big classic rock band — these are the references I recognize.
"Now we glean the timorous arrival, dare I say, of pleasure," he writes, a sentence I could hear only in the most unctuous cartoon voice.
Although pancakes and French toast totally have their place in the AM, sometimes morning calls for something with a little more unctuous and umami than sweet.
Further evidence of that danger comes from the tiger Shere Khan, voiced by Idris Elba in the velvet purr of one of Shakespeare's more unctuous villains.
Mr. Legend, typically unctuous, was immaculate here, exuding confident calm behind his piano in front of a crowd that had just been shrieking for Mr. West.
He also spies on his ex-wife, and is less than thrilled to learn that her unctuous new boyfriend has bought Shingo a snazzy baseball mitt.
As to "bold": What was that unctuous sheet of meat supplementing the roast loin of lamb with pesto-topped eggplant, garlic purée, olives and buttery potatoes?
Law is transfixing as Pius XIII, playing the role with an unctuous charm that can quickly give way to stunning cruelty and even what looks like madness.
" White: Bordeaux Blanc"Let's not forget that white wines can move away from light and crisp and head more towards round and unctuous in the colder months.
The tactlessness seemed all the more notable given how unctuous Mr Moon has been in his praise of Mr Trump, despite the misgivings of many South Koreans.
Mr Kasich, the only remaining candidate with appeal to centrist Republicans (the unctuous Mr Cruz never hit it off with Washington insiders), jumped ship on May 4th.
The toppings are rich: braised spare ribs and unctuous squiggles of chicharrón, along with a splatter painting of black sesame seeds, chopped scallions, sriracha and pickled jalapeño.
Rhone Valley, France, $18 This unctuous white blend includes roussanne for body, clairette for floral lift and grenache blanc for minerality — in short, it's a total package.
While the motel's unctuous sleazeball manager insists to the authorities that his security footage is wiped every couple of days, Mia has captured evidence with her phone.
During a recent visit, I could have ordered a dozen plates of pig knuckles — salty, crispy and unctuous morsels drizzled with cane syrup, down-home and decadent.
Stepping momentarily off camera, Mr. Colbert returned (wearing a fake mustache) as an unctuous office manager named Randy, who conducted a practice job interview with the president.
But after she is seduced anew by an unctuous Lamborghini salesman, played by a very against-type Michael Cera, Maximo is out the door without a cent.
The unctuous boss played by Mr. Gervais is the focus of the darkly cynical show, but it's actually the reactions to his idiotic comments that make you laugh.
The concentration of sugar in the dried grapes produces high alcohol levels in which yeast cannot survive — generally dying before fermentation is complete — leaving a sweet, unctuous wine.
Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, wrote a check for a cool million, and his coach, Bill Belichick, wrote an unctuous letter of endorsement during the campaign.
As an unctuous, has-been science-fiction writer in a sendup of a video-game company produced by several veterans of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," of course.
He went to great lengths to ensure victory and appeared shell-shocked by the result, presumably because his unctuous courtiers did not make clear the jeopardy he was in.
The scent also has a fatty underbelly of synthetic ambergris (an unctuous mineral material derived, glamorously, from whale vomit), which gives it something of an ancient, wet cement feel.
The weekend brunch for 252,900 dinars per person, is an all-you-can eat affair with unctuous roasted pork, beef stew, chicken skewers and ample amounts of cured meat.
Lamb meatballs were unctuous, if a bit dry, rescued by juicier pulled lamb meat below, but it was hard to justify paying thirty dollars for only three of them.
The hosts greet their guests with unctuous exchanges, while the visitors, in overlapping and comically elongated phrases, voice refrains of "Enchanted, enchanted," as the orchestra erupts with jumpy outbursts.
For one thing, we learn that his first wife died in a mysterious fire; for another, he's a born salesman, suave and unctuous, with an eye for other women.
The Do Ferreiro had a richer texture — unctuous, as Max D. put it — yet was lively, energetic, complex and pure, with herbal, floral and citrus flavors, and a firm minerality.
Just in case that wasn't decadent enough, the whole shebang is capped with razor-thin discs of unctuous black truffle and Sicilian pistachios, then plated on a personal cake stand.
But at Tayyabs, everything we eat—from the charred lamb chops that arrive at the table still sizzling to an unctuous moong masoor dhal the colour of sunshine—is intensely savory.
He adds unctuous piano chords to a poem about Los Angeles that contrasts the seraphic innocence of its name with the oil-reek of the industry that helped make it rich.
Animalis, in its original form, was an unctuous golden liquid comprised civet, castoreum, costus and musk, and smelled a bit like body odor, dirty scalp, perspiration, butter and a horse stable.
It's a very different level of ... He has no ability to take responsibility, even though I think he's not the kind of ... Again, people I've covered have been really unctuous, awful people.
In 2008, when Hillary made her first run for president, she went straight back to Mark Penn, one of the most unctuous political operatives ever to emerge from the swamp of Washington.
The menu is always changing, but might include a slab of unctuous caramelized pork belly with black garlic and vermicelli, or savory custard with chunks of spanner crab and flecks of lovage.
And while Azaria has played all kinds of stock characters on "The Simpsons" — brash Southerners, unctuous Brits, frustratingly polite Canadians — he said they were permissible in a way that Apu is not.
Not a bad thing at all with fatty ribs, but the addition of coriander seeds and cilantro appearing in a number of ways offers a welcome contrast to a familiar unctuous sweetness.
Some trails are extravagantly well marked, the blazes ushering you around turns like a parade of unctuous footmen anticipating every tremor of uncertainty, but this one was marked only where strictly necessary.
One night those beautiful shambles of suadero were briefly demoted in favor of cabeza (beef head, primarily cheek and jowl), which elsewhere I've found overly unctuous but here is simply and astonishingly lush.
Those plans go rather spectacularly awry, naturally, when Poirot encounters an unctuous dealer named Ratchett (Johnny Depp, painfully hamming it up '30s gangster style), who seeks the detective's protection, having received threatening notes.
But it wasn't easy, because the unctuous, meaty fat used in dishes like oil-fried sticky rice, lard-brushed scallion pancakes and other street-food classics is also part of the flavor profile.
The moussaka we so wanted to love was left behind, quietly, on everyone's plates; bits of unctuous eggplant and tiny mince drenched in a mixture of runny béchamel, lamb fat and tomato sauce.
After the invasion, Antonina and Jan are greeted with unctuous cordiality by Lutz Heck (Daniel Brühl), a suave Nazi zoologist who offers to transport the zoo's most prized animals to Berlin for safekeeping.
Fluke ceviche, with lime and red onion, was bright and assertive; red-snapper tiradito , sliced into thin pieces and topped with unctuous persimmon and lightly crunchy poppy seeds, was elegant, like fruity silk.
And when McDonald's Frankie gave harried consent to Johnny's strange, unctuous requests—to open her robe, to reinitiate sex—I wondered how these details would sound if you told them to a judge.
The Founder opens with Michael Keaton as Kroc delivering a strained sales pitch for a milkshake mixer directly to the camera with all the sweaty, unctuous desperation of Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross.
Then it was time for pad krapow moe, a quintessential Thai dish with spicy minced pork, industrious amounts of chili and fresh basil, and a fried egg on top with an unctuous, runny yolk.
In the lusher folds and hollows, we found angelica, a plant with a floral, almost verbena note and just a touch of bitterness — well suited to contain the broad flavors of the unctuous lamb.
Browned and crisp French fries, craggy chicken wings coated in hot sauce, breaded calamari that crunches audibly when you bite down — all without the unctuous mess, wafting odor and calorie count of deep-frying.
This is a novel where every sentence has been wrapped in layer upon layer of velvet, in which every word is unctuous, in which every image is just on the verge of feeling overripe.
Finish the lobster sauce: In a medium saucepan, reduce the carrot juice by half, add the cream mixture, and reduce at a tranquil simmer for 30 to 40 minutes, until still unctuous but not stiff.
" Atop a slice of nutty, seeded country loaf, avocados are barely mashed before being topped with toasted Sicilian pistachios, pickled Fresno chiles and a duck egg — "for its dramatic appearance, unctuous yolk and extra silkiness.
In scenes where an unctuous pair of bank managers interrogate an employee, and then, later, a loan applicant, it's as if Eugène Ionesco were doing an adaptation of "Office Space" for an Amicus horror anthology.
He could convey the swagger and haplessness of a two-bit crook, the authority of a hardened homicide detective, the unctuous ingratiations of a yes man — as well as a sense of vulnerability, desperation and weakness.
And the testicles—unctuous, crispy on the outside and with the perfect tartar sauce kick on the side—are like an adventurous take on chicken nuggets, the kind of stuff you wish came by the bucketload.
On the more unctuous side, there were two former members of One Direction now trying different paths: Niall Horan, with ardent ballads leaning toward arena-country, and Liam Payne, whose seductive songs draw on R&B.
If you're interested in catching up on the debate surrounding the unctuous delicacy—a good bit of which deals with forced feeding by a technique known as gavage—MUNCHIES' short documentary from last year dives right in.
The move toward dispassionate stats is for the greater good; sportswriting and fandom are too often unctuous and absurd and lend themselves to blanket moralizing in which the athlete is reduced to some lesson about life itself.
Dine on Mediterranean-inspired tapas such as fried potatoes with hollandaise, lemony roasted cauliflower, unctuous liver toasts or vinegary eggplant with bulgur, or stop by for a nightcap after dinner at the bar's nearby sister restaurant, Lawrence.
In "X," they are a de facto jury, watching Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz (a willful Chelsea Lee Williams), prosecute her late husband's associate-turned-foe Louis X, best known as Louis Farrakhan (Jonathan-David, wonderfully unctuous).
The dish is literally fruit, wine, and cheese—it's warm, a little bit of butter, red wine reduction, these warm, meaty, unctuous prunes—literally like two fucking prunes—in this pool of really nice, cold, whipped mascarpone.
But there's two things I think you should look for in determining a quality doughnut: for a soft and sort of crispy one, it should have the contrast between the interior and exterior crust, and an unctuous middle.
Jim Nantz, the longtime host of the CBS broadcast and of the Butler Cabin sacrament, has perfected an air of unctuous self-satisfaction that signals even to the casual viewer that there is something batty about the whole enterprise.
Even putting General Tso's chicken on a menu was empathetic because it was many Americans' first experience with what they believed to be "Chinese" food, and in its rich and unctuous flavors, we were assured that everything would be okay.
Sinosphere BEIJING — From his start as an aspiring diplomat in China's Foreign Ministry in 1959 to his days as an ambassador in Paris and Geneva, Wu Jianmin represented the best of his country's diplomacy: firm but reasonable, gracious but not unctuous.
Without it, the love songs that regularly place him in the Top 10 — megahits like "All of Me" from 2013 — are anodyne enough to work as wedding songs; they're a worthy and lucrative enterprise that can leave an unctuous, saccharine aftertaste.
Elsewhere, the revelation that the unctuous hedge-fund creep Todd Krakow (Danny Strong), previously the show's comic-relief antagonist, has been named Treasury Secretary is perhaps the best gag of the episode, in that funny-because-it's-true sort of way.
While they can uncover no further evidence that he is taking advantage of that haven for financial shenanigans, they do get a direct hit on his fellow cabinet member Todd Krakow (Danny Strong), the unctuous hedge funder turned treasury secretary.
It is thrilling to be in the room with the two of them once their cat-and-mouse game commences: Marco, unctuous, a savant of manipulation; Cercas, recoiling in his chair, empathizing against his will, trying desperately not to be used.
The most unlikely, Jack (Patrick Dempsey), is the unctuous American billionaire founder of a dating website who pulls her out of the mud at the Glastonbury music festival, which she attends with Miranda and which the movie portrays as a cheap, gaudy circus.
From the start of the epidemic, Trump did nothing but ignore, minimize and mislead the public, while draping himself in cringeworthy, unctuous praise from officials who diminished themselves to avoid upsetting him, after seeing how those who spoke the truth incurred his wrath.
Instant ramen has been popular around the world for years — but lovingly handcrafted, slow-cooked, unctuous broths of the type that you can only get from simmering actual bones for long periods of time got some long-overdue love in America in 2014.
After we tasted the finished product—which was somehow crispy and delicate and unctuous and sharp all at the same time—we had to know: Does Sharma's husband like this version better than his mother's fried chicken, which was reportedly made with pork fat?
N.L.," where he played his share of unctuous flight attendants and receptionists, palled around with his co-stars Chris Farley, Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, and set off a 20-year-long feud when he called Eddie Murphy "a falling star" on "Weekend Update.
The Justice League's freedom of movement has been increasingly restricted, due to a mix of negative press from television pundit G. Gordon Godfrey (voiced by Tim Curry, with unctuous malice) and Lex Luthor (Mark Rolston), who has managed to become Secretary-General of the United Nations.
But Mr Cruz is an unctuous ideologue whose entire pitch to date has been aimed at the most conservative third of the country, all but ensuring that—if he somehow became his party's candidate—he would lead them to a merely conventional sort of November defeat.
The sandwich, which consists of stock-drenched ham hock, crispy shoestring chips, a decadent fried egg, vibrant piccalilli, and plenty of malt vinegar mayo to cut all that unctuous fat, happens to be the first Halley ever created for his North London restaurant, Max's Sandwich Shop.
These are revealed by an unctuous Teach for America type on the faculty, who voices the anti-affirmative-action complaints Noah can't quite bring himself to lodge and then brazenly asks for Noah's help in getting his manuscript ("East of Pasadena," eye roll) to the right people.
The Old English usage was complimentary, slick and sleek interchangeably referring to the smooth glossy pelt of a healthy animal, then a plump and bright-eyed person; later in its evolution an oily sheen developed and the word began to describe someone more unctuous, servile or obsequious.
But Short is also responsible for such indelible, vaguely disquieting weirdos as the cross-eyed Vegas entertainer Jackie Rogers Jr. (a blend of Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr.) and that unctuous butterball Jiminy Glick, a fact-deprived Hollywood gossip gadfly modeled after syndicated '70s gossip show host Skip E. Lowe.
"Ain't Who I Was" (Thirty Tigers) A few years ago Bonnie Bishop had what many Nashville songwriters would consider an enviable break, when "Nashville" — the unctuous prime-time soap opry, now on its way to cancellation but then a rampaging hit for ABC — featured one of her songs as an anthem.
Umut is here to show us how to make a flæskestegssandwich, a pork roast sandwich, which has been a staple of hot dog stands across Denmark for decades: Unctuous slices of roasted and grilled pork neck are nestled in a soft bun with crispy cracklings, pickled cucumbers, red cabbage, and a spicy mayonnaise.
The bagna cauda was upgraded by having its oil mostly replaced with cream, creating a rich bath into which produce from the restaurant's own farm in southern Japan — thin-cut yellow carrot, mustard green, lotus root and kohlrabi — was dipped and then removed, leaving its bright, vegetal essences enrobed in unctuous garlic.
Also Michael York, but I'd be leery of that last one: York's reading of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" suffers from the forced, unctuous "Hello, children!" tone so often used by people who don't really like or understand kids but have somehow gotten saddled with the task of amusing them.
But in the same way that the Maltese Falcon or the "Pulp Fiction" briefcase are meaningful mostly through what people do in their name, Bobby's predicament — moronically described as "Defcon 6" by his unctuous, hilarious compliance officer Ari Spyros (Stephen Kunken) — enables an entire cast of characters and guest stars to shine.
Robert Oliver, a chef in his 24s who was born in New Zealand and raised in Fiji, prizes what the Fijians call vara, the Samoans o'o and the Hawaiians lolo niu: the spongy embryo that forms inside a sprouted coconut, absorbing the oils from the surrounding meat until it balloons, filling the cavity, unctuous as butter cake.
Ali nazik is, in schematic form, the same thing, built on the same foundation of milky eggplant, but in Lokanta's version the lamb is ground and simmered with onions and red and green peppers; somehow it achieves a rich, unctuous consistency that is amplified by the eggplant and the scoop of strained yogurt dropped on top.
These cuts break down during the cooking time to provide an unctuous sauce (part of the benefit of collagen's hydrolyzation into gelatin) that will enrich any dish; the vegetables that are cooked with it will provide more nutrients; and any recipe will offer ways to extend it far beyond that of a quick-cooking single-portion cut (like steaks or chops).
The writers of "Silicon Valley" have a special talent for engineering elaborate systems for the sake of a good running joke — the sexual mathematics that led to the Eureka moment for middle-out; the SWOT board as a way to determine whether or not to let an unctuous stuntman fall to his doom — but "Meinertzhagen's Haversack" is a high-water mark.
For example, back in 22017, at the height of pumpkin spice mania, this very website described the PSL as "an unctuous, pungent, saccharine brown liquid, equal parts dairy and diabetes, served in paper cups and guzzled down by the liter" — even though clearly the pumpkin spice latte is a highly delicious treat that pairs well with wearing vests and making dorky comments about how crisp the air feels today.

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