Definition: smeared or soiled with grease or oil
Usage: greasy coveralls; get rid of rubbish and oily rags
Similar words: soiled, dirty, unclean
Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Usage: dirty unswept sidewalks; a child in dirty overalls; dirty slums; piles of dirty dishes; put his dirty feet on the clean sheet; wore an unclean shirt; mining is a dirty job; Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves
Synonyms: greasy, sebaceous, oily, oleaginous
Definition: containing an unusual amount of grease or oil
Usage: greasy hamburgers; oily fried potatoes; oleaginous seeds
Synonyms: oily
Definition: coated or covered with oil
Usage: oily puddles in the streets
Similar words: coated
Definition: having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination
Usage: coated paper has a smooth polished coating especially suitable for halftone printing; sugar-coated pills
Synonyms: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, fulsome, smarmy, soapy, buttery
Definition: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Usage: buttery praise; gave him a fulsome introduction; an oily sycophantic press agent; oleaginous hypocrisy; smarmy self-importance; the unctuous Uriah Heep; soapy compliments
Similar words: insincere
Definition: lacking sincerity
Usage: a charming but thoroughly insincere woman; their praise was extravagant and insincere