What does oleaginous mean?
Oleaginous means Oily, greasy..
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/ˌəʊ.lɪˈæd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəs/ · adjective
Oily, greasy..
[…] the use of Linseed-oyl, Tar, or such oleaginous Matter, tends much to their Preservation and Duration.
Looking back, it seemed to me that a slight oleaginous mist was still hovering round the chair.
His once-black hair had faded to the color of used steel wool and now covered his bony skull in a peculiar oleaginous fuzz.
The oleaginous salesman convinced me to buy a more expensive car.
Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure.
She runs a mentoring scholarship programme for women, administered by a tiresome, oleaginous would-be conductor, played by Mark Strong, and there are rumours that this is a source of young women with whom Tár has affairs.
Use oleaginous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Oleaginous means Oily, greasy..
Common synonyms include oily, sebaceous, unctuous, fulsome.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] the use of Linseed-oyl, Tar, or such oleaginous Matter, tends much to their Preservation and Duration.
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