Usually means: Excessively flattering or ingratiatingly smooth.
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  1. unctuously: Merriam-Webster
  2. unctuously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unctuously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unctuously: Vocabulary.com
  5. unctuously: Wordnik
  6. unctuously: Wiktionary
  7. unctuously: Dictionary.com
  8. unctuously: Rhymezone
  9. unctuously: FreeDictionary.org
  10. unctuously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. unctuously: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unctuously: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unctuously: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. unctuously: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unctuously)

▸ adverb:  Insincerely and excessively charming

Similar:
smarmily, fulsomely, oversweetly, overeffusively, oversolicitously, gushingly, overfondly, overlavishly, overextravagantly, overfully, more...

Opposite:
austere, blunt, straightforward, candid, direct

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Similar:
smarmily, fulsomely, oversweetly, overeffusively, oversolicitously, gushingly, overfondly, overlavishly, overextravagantly, overfully, more...

Opposite:
austere, blunt, straightforward, candid, direct



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