Definitions for: Oily

[adj] smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"
[adj] containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"
[adj] coated or covered with oil; "oily puddles in the streets"
[adj] unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"

Webster (1913) Definition: Oil"y, a. [Compar. Oilier; superl. Oiliest.]
1. Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or
qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or
substance. --Bacon.

2. Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an
oily appearance.

3. Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible;
insinuating. ``This oily rascal.'' --Shak.

His oily compliance in all alterations. --Fuller.

Oily grain (Bot.), the sesame.

Oily palm, the oil palm.

Synonyms: buttery, coated, dirty, fat, fatty, fulsome, greasy, insincere, oleaginous, sebaceous, smarmy, soiled, unclean, unctuous

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