DEVIL DICTIONARY
oleaginous
adj. Oily, smooth, sleek.
Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as
"unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever
afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the
vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies
have only to find it.
ROGET THESAURUS
oleaginous
Unctuousness
N
unctuousness, unctuosity, lubricity, ointment, anointment, lubrication, unctuous, oily,
oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous, unguinous, fat, fatty, greasy, waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous, slippery.