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oleaginous
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oleaginous /ole·ag·i·nous/ (o″le-aj´ĭ-nus) oily; greasy.
o·le·ag·i·nous (l-j-ns)
adj.
Oily; greasy.
oleaginous [o″le-aj´ĭ-nus]
oily; greasy.
oleaginous
oily; greasy.
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Of course I shall host your little party," says one grande dame, and Barbara flinches imperceptibly at the put-down, recovers in an instant and is oleaginously grateful and relieved: Moore conveys the sequence of facial events with great precision.
Savage Grace by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
25) A number of critics have drawn attention to a fin de siecle anxiety concerning the body, perhaps most notably Kelly Hurley whose book The Gothic Body; Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) explores the way in which such anxiety finds an oleaginously monstrous form in the literature of the period.
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