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Перевод: unctuous

[прилагательное]
елейный; маслянистый; жирный и липкий

Тезаурус:

1. It's wonderful - richer and more unctuous - in stuffings or to flavour sauces where you would normally use lemon or lime.
2. In the mouth it is hugely, stickily unctuous and far, far too young.
3. Declining the unctuous offer of the drymatic machine, he wrapped himself in a towel and sauntered through to his living room, where a sleek computer housed in non-reflecting black sat seductively on a complex work station.
4. sleek and unctuous member of the Chuzzlewit family whom CD modelled upon the editor of the Art Union Monthly Samuel Carter Hall (1800-;89).
5. The motion states: "To recruit almost exclusively from the narrow minority group of Guardian readers whose views are predominantly leftwing is contrary to the spirit of the obligations of political balance in broadcasting and is an explanation of the self-righteous and unctuous hostility of broadcasters towards the present Government."
6. So: utter refusal, and refusal couched in terms of the most unctuous, sanctimonious cant imaginable.
7. "He is a terrible actor, nothing but a big bag of wind, the most unctuous man I've ever met."
8. There's a terrific scene in The Sweet Smell of Success in which Burt Lancaster - playing an unctuous newspaper columnist - surveys Broadway by night.
9. The Methodists were nonetheless going from strength to strength, and noting that they listened to "hearty, racy, cutting and unctuous speeches which surely would never be forgotten."
10. Finally, of course, the regime's agents often added their own unctuous gloss to the popular mood they were reporting, anxious, in the light of the conspiracy against the Fhrer, to put their own unswerving loyalty beyond question.
11. "One night on that, my son, and you are in danger of electrocution," I said to the young Sheikh as the unctuous Asian salesman waited.
12. I remember during the rehearsals for Die Zauberflte he criticized the Sarastro for putting on the kind of unctuous tone that, according to Grndgens, was best left to indoctrination meetings for the Party faithful.
13. In public he was unctuous.