Example sentences for: unctuous

How can you use “unctuous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This unctuous display infuriated members of the press corps--several told me they avoid talking to Lewis.

  • But unctuous hypocrites are not the sort who would make a $500 billion raid on the US Treasury in broad daylight.

  • The film is sappy and grating: Even the easy to please Gene Siskel calls it "utterly unctuous" and asks, "Who would want Mork at their bedside?"

  • If Bush had the kind of unctuous smile associated with many southern politicians, Chatterbox would say: Case closed.

  • This is clearly a sign of unctuous hypocrites at work.


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