Clues for the word "OILY"
We've had 159 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 449 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on March 25, 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
- 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
- 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
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