oleaginous

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• “You are a great man,” Arafat said, turning on his insincere, oleaginous charm.

• It also gives it an oleaginous mouthfeel that I don't like in soup.

• She will almost never be praised in public except by oleaginous flatterers desperate for social advantage.

• I really like that, as it was quite a change from the somewhat oleaginous British academic leadership.

• Kissinger, at his oleaginous best, tries to reassure Nixon that, whatever the press says, the bombing achieved its intention.

• They are oleaginous, and nutritious; and are used as a substitute for almonds.

• A volatile oleaginous substance obtained by distillation from draco-cephalum Moldavicum.

• Because friction generates caloric, which volatises the oleaginous particles of the stearine matter.

• In this caldron a seething sea of oleaginous liquid conceals an infinite variety of animal and vegetable substances.

• The fruit of this plant (hemp seed) is demulcent and oleaginous.