Clues for the word "OILY"
We've had 161 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 471 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on April 06, 2026.
Definition of oily
- superl. - Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance.
- superl. - Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.
- superl. - Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating.
Referring Clues
- Overly smooth
- Like auto shop floors
- Unctuous
- Smooth-tongued
- Like unwashed hair
- Smooth-talking
- Bootlicking
- Slick
- In need of a shampoo
- Greasy
- Not to be trusted
- Like service station rags
- Suave to a fault
- Like unwashed hair, maybe
- Overly suave
- Lubricative
- Smarmy
- Too smooth
- Like olives or peanuts
- Like hands after eating potato chips
- Like a mechanic's hands
- Suave, and then some
- Opposite of dry, as hair
- Needing shampoo, say
- Like a service station floor
- Like some hair
- Too suave
- Slick with lubricant
- Like some salad dressings
- Like a slick
- Like creosote
- Slick, physically or relationally
- Word on some shampoo bottles
- Like many a garage floor
- Way too smooth
- Like some garage floors
- Like a scam artist
- Not dry, as hair
- Way too suave
- Like a crankcase
- Unguinous
- Like some hair applications
- Like a garage floor, say
- Full of grease
- Like butter
- Like margarine stains
- Like margarine
- Like auto crankcases
- Like a busy mechanic's rags
- Smeared with grease
- Like some driveways
- Like potato chips
- Like a grease monkey's rag
- Like a mechanic's rag
- Like brilliantine
- Acne-prone
- Like a freshly prepped baseball mitt, perhaps
- Like a dipstick, sometimes
- Like lipstick
- Problem skin type
- Like mechanics' hands
- Like a dipstick
- Like garage floors, often
- Pinguid
- Like many sunscreens
- Prone to acne, say
- Hardly trustworthy
- Like garage floors
- Insincerely nice
- Adjective on some shampoo bottles
- Excessively suave
- Type of complexion
- Opposite of dry, as skin
- Like sulfuric acid
- Grease-filled
- In need of a shampoo, say
- Too glib
- Slippery
- Overly flattering
- Like the floor of an auto repair shop
- Oozing with smarm
- Like sardines
- Well-lubricated
- Overly greasy
- Overly smooth-talking
- Like an auto repair shop floor
- Obsequious, in a way
- Well lubricated
- Overly ingratiating
- In an unctuous fashion
- Hard to grasp, perhaps
- Oleaginous
- Suspiciously suave
- Like an unwiped dipstick
- Excessively charming
- Fat-filled
- Like a mechanic's rags
- Like slick roads
- Like bad fried food
- Like a mechanic's hands, sometimes
- Too smooth-talking
- Kind of boid that catches the woim?
- Fawning
- Like a garage rag
- LIke an auto mechanic's floor
- Like some skin
- Like an auto-shop floor
- Covered with grease
- Like some salads
- Obsequious Oscar is sly when abandoning ship
- Smooth come-back in the role of the Cowardly Lion
- Sebaceous thing on cake tray died off?
- It's nothing for half the family to be unctuous
- Not exactly wily, but unctuous
- All leaders in organisation invariably like you, overly suave
- Greasy - obsequious
- Like mechanics' rags
- Like suntan lotion
- Like some driveway patches
- Covered in grease
- Like deep-fried turkey
- Annoyingly suave
- Grease-laden
- Like greasy food
- Like a garage floor
- Slick, like a garage floor
- Slick, as a road
- Like tanning lotion
- Like some fried food
- Greasy, as a salad
- Unnervingly smooth
- Suspiciously flattering, say
- Like fish with lots of omega-3s
- Like a furnace-fixer's rags
- Like sardines in a can
- Like a mechanic's 27-Across
- Like a mechanic’s rag
- Lubricated
- Like many a teen's skin
- Slick to the touch
- Like a slick garage floor
- Full of smarm
- Slick in consistency
- Like hands after eating youtiao
- Like a slippery garage floor
- Like a masseuse's hands, often
- How T-zone skin might get
- Like many a mechanic's rag
- Like tinned sardines
- Like auto shop rags
- Like canned sardines and olives, typically
- Like dipsticks
- Sebaceous
- Like latkes
- Like many garage floors
- Like acne-prone skin
- Like napkins after dabbing pizza
- Like garage floors, sometimes
- Like unwashed hair, perhaps
- Like canned olives
- Like an otter's fur
Last Seen In
- Daily American - April 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 04, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 19, 2026
- LA Times - February 17, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 05, 2026
- Daily American - February 01, 2026
- Your Life Choices - November 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 22, 2025
- Daily American - November 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 01, 2025
- LA Times - August 07, 2025
- LA Times - July 30, 2025
- LA Times - June 27, 2025
- Daily American - June 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 21, 2025
- Daily American - April 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 27, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 06, 2024
- LA Times - November 24, 2024
- Daily American - November 19, 2024
- Daily American - November 02, 2024
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