oleaginous

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Ragoravich is predictably oleaginous, a man with a file cabinet full of hidden agendas, but he is charmingly persuasive, and the money has already been wired into Maggie’s account.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

Online sales minimized interactions with oleaginous salesmen and added price transparency, which did away with the haggling.

From Slate • May 30, 2023

But the most villainous entity they encounter is a duplicitous schemer played with oleaginous insincerity by Hugh Grant.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2023

But she is conflicted about Rumsfeld, who comes off as both an oleaginous creep and a master political schemer.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2019

The oleaginous coating of the wires, together with the small triangular spaces between them, would seem to reduce the destructive power of the vibrations to zero.

From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.