Clues for the word "OILY"
We've had 159 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 448 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on March 20, 2025.
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
Last Seen In
- 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
- Penny Dell Daily - October 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2024
- Daily American - October 10, 2024
- New York Times - October 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 26, 2024
- Daily American - September 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 24, 2024
- LA Times - August 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 21, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2024
- Daily American - June 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 21, 2024
- New York Times - May 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 15, 2024
- Daily American - April 05, 2024
- Family Time - March 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 22, 2024
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