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are unctuous
adjective
Oily or greasy.
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The resulting cheeses are unctuous in texture and intriguingly complex in flavor, with an elusive, buttery, sensuous fragrance that is like white truffles in the mouth -- virtually impossible to define but unmistakable when you taste it.
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He's unctuous.
House-marinated salmon is unctuous and powerfully salty.
"Not if they're unctuous," Ms. Solomon said.
I surrender: the belly was unctuous, all fat rendered and the meat dense but soft.
"It's unctuous, like candy, a very alluring fish," he said.
Torres's prose style is unctuous, dense with metaphor and surprising imagery.
There was smoke from the cha lua and a salty frisson from the headcheese, which had give without being unctuous.
As Richard II, he's unctuous, camp and fey: it's as if he's playing Elizabeth I playing Richard II.
Ibérico meat is unctuous — up to thirty-five per cent fat — and its most luxurious variety, bellota, melts at room temperature.
He wasn't wrong: it's unctuous with cheese and a soft pound cake crust, and has a haunting, spicy, orangey flavour of sweet potato.
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