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1. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil
   "oily fried potatoes"
   - greasy, sebaceous, oleaginous
    
2. Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
   "an oily sycophantic press agent"
   - buttery, fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous
    
3. Coated or covered with oil
   "oily puddles in the streets"
    
4. Smeared or soiled with grease or oil
   "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"
   - greasy

Derived forms: oilier, oiliest

See also: coated, dirty, fat, fatty, insincere, oil, oiliness, soiled, unclean

Encyclopedia: Oily