This kind of oleaginous 'repentence' is a growth industry for the '00s. From Wordnik.com. [Crying??!!!] Reference
Funny, isn't it, how Coulter drops ridiculous constructions like "oleaginous", but doesn't seem to know the meaning of the word "specious". From Wordnik.com. [decency] Reference
To avoid abrasions most all Scandinavian operators use some kind of oleaginous substance. From Wordnik.com. [Massage and the Original Swedish Movements] Reference
Unctuous, oleaginous, smarmy -- why does he get reelected?. From Wordnik.com. [Top Lieberman Campaign Official: We Begged Obama For Help In 2006 -- And He Came Through] Reference
The quality of the Mellasys hand was an oleaginous clamminess. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
Their acridity is owing to an oleaginous substance called capsicin. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Rexhill permitted an oleaginous smile to overspread his countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
MITT ROMNEY: Is it possible you could be any more oleaginous than you are?. From Wordnik.com. [So You Wanna Be My President, Huh? Answer Me This!] Reference
My hand was trapped deep in Raddle's oleaginous organ, which felt endless. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
Imagine the unctuous Clinton or the oleaginous Obama saying those words. From Wordnik.com. [Live-blogging the big Hillary-Obama debate.] Reference
"I do not come to rob your land or game," Van Rijn said in an oleaginous tone. From Wordnik.com. [Trader To The Stars]
But they'd never recognize this current bunch of oleaginous hypocrites and fearmongers. From Wordnik.com. [Far-Right GOP's Viciousness, Venom Familiar to Some of Us] Reference
Amidst the error and oleaginous bad faith, however, lies one valuable nugget of insight. From Wordnik.com. [David Roberts: The Will to Disbelieve: David Roberts] Reference
He was a man of great force and calculation — large, oleaginous, politic, and courageous. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
The posse is left breathless and frustrated, consigned to marvel at his oleaginous virtuosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Running Is Done] Reference
Like all the oleaginous plants cultivated for their seed, colza greatly impoverishes the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
But back to the oleaginous Morris, whose dead-wrong forecasts continued throughout the campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Sigman: Prediction Fiction] Reference
This attitude declaims that some End is always Near, the oleaginous Gulf of Mexico notwithstanding. From Wordnik.com. [James Scarborough: "Prelude to an Apocalypse: Landscape in an Era of Diminished Expectations," Pedersen Projects] Reference
It is believed that a deficiency of oleaginous matter is a predisposing cause of tuberculous disease. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
Having eaten maybe half an ounce of meat, I was left with a small mountain of bones and oleaginous fat. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Hoggart's week: Lot valley? The French aren't kidding] Reference
First, half a pound of pudding, minus anything oleaginous, and a basin of water was administered to each. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
The food of animals, for the most part, may be said to consist of a saccharine, an oleaginous, and an albuminous principle. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
What future did any of us have in a state where the choice was either a blow-dried Ku Klucker or an oleaginous Cajun kleptocrat?. From Wordnik.com. [Bayou Bobby] Reference
On the surface of all, but especially on these last, an oleaginous, highly inflammable fluid collects in the form of a thin film. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
By boiling the crude odika, I was unable, as I hoped, to separate the oleaginous from the extraneous matter, of which it contains. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference
Full-fed with maritime and oleaginous lore, our travellers at last embarked upon the "Eagle's Wing," bound down the Vineyard Sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
At some quite recent period it had obviously contained nourishment of an oleaginous nature, but, though soiled, it was still legible. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
As the oleaginous Clinton loyalist, James Carville, has said, if Mrs. Clinton gave Obama one of her testicles, "they'd both have two.". From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Ducat: Revenge of the Wimp Factor: The Ironies of Proving Manhood in the Democratic Primary] Reference
She combined the words craie, which is French for chalk, and ola, for oleaginous, because crayons are made from petroleum based paraffin. From Wordnik.com. [120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts | Impact Lab] Reference
Unlike Tom Ripley, Tower came from a reasonably well-to-do background and had a talent beyond oleaginous charm: he could cook up a storm. From Wordnik.com. [Cooking Up a Storm] Reference
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