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Definition of "unctuosity" []

  • The state or characteristic of being unctuous. (noun)

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Use "unctuosity" in a sentence
  • ""unctuosity" in the boiling -- the meat being always served up boiled in a pot with vegetables, like the "bacon and greens" of the "crackers" in the South."
  • "But the change arrived at 4pm so instead, we had them hot - indoors, as the rain pelted down - on a delicious bed of potatoes mashed to total unctuosity with garlic and olive oil."
  • "We monks are taken at face value in Humptulips, treated with casual unctuosity by that portion of the citizenry that is neither Indian nor drunk and with utter indifference by that larger portion that is decidedly both."