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Example sentences for "unctuously"

Lexicographically close words:
uncrowned; uncrystallizable; unction; unctions; unctuous; uncultivated; uncultured; uncurbed; uncurled; uncurling
  1. You have devoted your life to matters of greater moment, Mr. Williams," unctuously responded the younger man.

  2. It would be better for art if it were frankly snubbed rather than thus unctuously encouraged.

  3. As Chang was saying to me the other night," Henry prospectively and unctuously quoted Charles.

  4. These same men, when serving on juries, were harsh in their verdicts on poor criminals, and unctuously flattered themselves with being, and were represented as, the upholders and conservers of law and moral conduct.

  5. But all of these teachings were, in one sense, chatter and nonsense; the very classes which so unctuously preached them were those who most strained themselves to acquire all of the wealth that they possibly could.


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