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unctuous

Main Entry:
unctuous [uhngk-choo-uhs]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sycophantic
Synonyms: groveling, ingratiating, obsequious, servile
Antonyms: blunt
Main Entry: unctuous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ingratiating
Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, insincere, oleaginous, smarmy, smooth, smug, suave
Antonyms: genuine, sincere
Main Entry: bland
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: friendly, gracious
Synonyms: affable, amiable, civilized, congenial, courteous, gentle, good-natured, ingratiating, oily, pleasant, smooth, suave, unctuous, unemotional, urbane
Antonyms: blase, dull, unfriendly, ungracious
Main Entry: complimentary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flattering
Synonyms: adulatory, appreciative, approbative, approbatory, approving, celebrating, commendatory, congratulatory, courtly, encomiastic, encomiastical, eulogistic, fair-spoken, fawning, highly favorable, honeyed, honoring, laudatory, panegyrical, plauditory, polite, praiseful, respectful, sycophantic, unctuous, well-wishing, with high praise, with highest recommendation
Notes: something is complimentary when it has the property embodied in such an expression; complementary describes an addition that produces completeness or perfection in something
Antonyms: blaming, censuring, critical, denouncing, disparaging, insulting, reproachful, unflattering
Main Entry: dishonest
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lying, untruthful
Synonyms: backbiting, bent, bluffing, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-crossing, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, guileful, hoodwinking, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaking, sneaky, swindling, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily
Antonyms: aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, principled, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful
Main Entry: fat
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: containing an oily substance
Synonyms: adipose, fatlike, fatty, greasy, oleaginous, suety, unctuous
Antonyms: lean
Main Entry: fatty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: full of adipose tissue
Synonyms: blubbery, fatlike, greasy, lardaceous, lardy, oily, oleaginous, rich, suety, unctuous
Antonyms: defatted, lean, low-fat, thin
Main Entry: fulsome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sickening or excessive behavior
Synonyms: adulatory, bombastic, buttery, canting, cloying, coarse, extravagant, fawning, flattering, glib, grandiloquent, hypocritical, immoderate, ingratiating, inordinate, insincere, magniloquent, mealy-mouthed, nauseating, offensive, oily, oleaginous, overdone, saccharine, sanctimonious, slick*, slimy*, smarmy, smooth, suave, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling
Antonyms: reasonable, sincere
Main Entry: goody-goody
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: straight-laced
Synonyms: God-fearing, PC, Puritan, Victorian, goody two-shoes, holier-than-thou, moral, nice, pious, politically correct, priggish, prissy, prudish, self-righteous, unctuous, virtuous
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