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greasily

WordNet
  1. (adv) greasily
    in a greasy manner "the food was greasily unappetizing"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Greasily
    In a greasy manner.
  2. Greasily
    In a gross or indelicate manner. "You talk greasily ; your lips grow foul."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. greasily
    In a greasy manner; with or as with grease.
  2. greasily
    Grossly; indecently.
Usage in literature

He smirked greasily up into the face of Wolf Larsen, who seemed not to see him. "The Sea-Wolf" by Jack London

When a porker wriggled and hunched and nosed a space in the line fence, and slithered greasily through, Lad's work was cut out for him. "Further Adventures of Lad" by Albert Payson Terhune

He smiled greasily, and moved about that darkened dog-kennel in a suspiciously familiar way. "Under the Deodars" by Rudyard Kipling

The heavy face, greasily moist on the cheeks and nose, was serious. "Under Fire" by Henri Barbusse

He shook his skinny yellow fist out over the broad river that crept greasily down to the equatorial sea. "With Edged Tools" by Henry Seton Merriman

Garcia, instructed by Coronado, could not bow low enough nor smile greasily enough at Aunt Maria. "Overland" by John William De Forest

Absolam, waxing greasily fatter and fatter, basking in the warmth of delightful celebrity, refused to be lost. "Fifth Avenue" by Arthur Bartlett Maurice

The man dropped the frying pan and it clattered to the floor, its contents spilling out greasily. "The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle" by Laura Lee Hope

They smeared greasily on the floor; they gnawed ravenously at every bit of linen or cotton fabric; they fell into every open vessel. "Winning the Wilderness" by Margaret Hill McCarter

Greasily the waiter produced the bill. "The Paliser case" by Edgar Saltus