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.

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