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'The coffee is free,'
an unctuous maître d'hôtel
once told him at lunch.
'If it's free it is ghastly,
or you, sir, are a jackass.'
- Peter Reading, Limns, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
Have no fear. Sionnach's on it. :-)
See also extreme unction, which I certainly hope someone has listed on their "Catholic Words" list...
"Now we can all be unctuous British gossip bitches" - Jordan McDeere, Studio 60
Greasy uncle?
-excessive piousness
-oily or soapy feel