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

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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Neptune has always been a kind of upside-down Mayberry, an acridly heightened not-quite-real-world, awash in oleaginous one percenters and two-bit hustlers, all of whom can banter like Nora Ephron’s version of Philip Marlowe.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2019

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

It yields one third of the oil produced in France, and in this respect occupies an intermediate position between the olive of the south, and the oleaginous seeds of the north.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.