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The adverb that slides into a sentence and refuses to leave clean.
means In a manner that is oily, slippery, or slick — whether literally coated in grease or figuratively unctuous and untrustworthy.
from From "grease," which came through Old French "graisse" from Latin "crassus," meaning "fat" or "thick" — the same root that gives us "crass." The "-ly" is the workaday English adverb suffix, the one that turns a quality into a way of doing things. So at its core the word means "in a fatty way"; the sense of sleazy slipperiness — the smarmy salesman, the too-smooth charmer — is a later figurative slide, the kind grease itself would approve of.
- sound effect
- Reads exactly as slippery as it means
- five-syllable slick
- Few adverbs slither this long and oily
- villain favorite
- Smirks, grins, and bows are done greasily
- root word
- From Old French graisse, animal fat
kentucky fried chicken — fast food chain where colonel sanders' 11 herbs and spices recipe is fried in oil, creating notoriously greasy chicken