unguent
Example Sentences
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Likewise, “sefet” is thought to refer to a sacred oil, but three vessels with that label contained animal fats combined with plant additives, suggesting it could be a scented unguent instead.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
But she is not one to disguise expensively acquired truth under some perfumed, feminizing unguent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Commentators could not help detecting one fly in the unguent, and greatly fearing another.
From Time Magazine Archive
But His Majesty is precisely the fly in the Irish unguent of freedom.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he goes on to report a test where the unguent was applied by a sceptical clergyman, so that there could be no suspicion of either cheating or demonic involvement.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing unguent
100 SAT Words Beginning with "U"
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