English Dictionary

unctuous

/ˈʌnkt͡ʃuəs/

adj

(of a liquid or substance) Oily or greasy. / (of a wine, coffee, sauce, gravy etc.) Rich, lush, intense, with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety flavor.

Her skin glistened with unctuous oil.

意味（1）

(of a liquid or substance) Oily or greasy.

In a word, after being tried out, the crisp, shrivelled blubber, now called scraps or fritters, still contains considerable of its unctuous properties.

意味（2）

(of a wine, coffee, sauce, gravy etc.) Rich, lush, intense, with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety flavor.

The halls and passages of the castle were already permeated with rich and unctuous smells, and a delicate nose might have picked out and arranged, by their finer or coarser vapors, the dishes preparing for the upper and lower tables.

意味（3）

(by extension, of a person) Profusely polite, especially unpleasantly so and insincerely earnest.

Then he thoroughly disliked the tone of Mr. Slope's letter; it was unctuous, false, and unwholesome, like the man.