(superl.) Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.
(superl.) Smeared or defiled with grease.
(superl.) Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone.
(superl.) Fat of body; bulky.
(superl.) Gross; indelicate; indecent.
(superl.) Affected with the disease called grease; as, the heels of a horse. See Grease, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(2) Ivanovic simply seemed to pull a muscle when he slipped on the greasy surface.
(3) We head off for breakfast at a greasy caff in London's West End.
(4) After allowing the 0.25% greasy ointment to take effect for 6 hours, about half of the dose applied to rats and three quarters of that applied to pigs could be removed from the application area (rejection rate).
(5) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
(6) Touch the soil, as Dughan did, and as his daughter did too at the sight of him, and it felt greasy, heavy, as if someone had poured cream onto loam.
(7) Immunization to provoke a persistent anti-melatonin antibody response at the winter solstice resulted in significantly increased greasy fleece weight, % cashmere yield, and mass of cashmere produced, but no change in fibre diameter in both sexes.
(8) The concentration and base in which a steroid is used influence this activity, and traditional greasy ointments are probably the most effective vehicles.
(9) The Jamaican lived up to his showbiz reputation as he made light of the greasy conditions and waved to the delighted crowd on his way to the blocks.
(10) Traditionally, such an outcome has felt beyond all realms of reason and possibility, with the notion that a decent sort of chap could politick his way to the top of Vatican's greasy poll more outlandish even than the idea that such a soul could take the White House.
(11) The Italian greasy spoon (now gone) sold overpriced, watery cappuccino, but was only yards from both Downing Street and the Treasury, and its interior, only dimly visible from the street, was small enough to deter eavesdroppers.
(12) The resistance of the virus was tested in vitro in a fluid medium of 50% Henk's balanced saline solution, 50% Eagle's medium MEM and a supplement of 10% normal calf serum as well as its resistance on artificially virus infected pig skin and greasy wool of sheep.
(13) The only art scene in Glasgow at the time was figurative painting: people with long greasy hair and moustaches who were like, "I could've been a shipbuilder, but I decided to be a painter instead."
(14) There was subjective benefit in hair growth and greasiness and a significant reduction in the semi-objective Ferriman-Gallwey index in nine of 10 subjects assessed for at least 9 months.
(15) We go back again and again for another greasy burger or indeterminate hunk of fish, knowing full well how bad it is for us.
(16) We rely on consumers information regarding the following properties of sunscreens: stickiness, oily shine, greasiness, discoloration, odor, and tolerance.
(17) The majority of complaints concerned the greasiness of mupirocin ointment.
(18) In the Middle East, where sport has over the past 15 years become increasingly important as a means of projecting soft power and building nationhood, involvement in bidding for events and climbing the greasy pole in international sports organisations has become a useful means of obtaining and retaining personal standing.
(19) The advantages of immediate wound closure in case of open leg wounds, as opposed to delayed repair or the use of greasy dressings, need no longer be proven.
(20) In both the twelve and four month studies the marked placebo effect of "youthful skin appearance", and on skin greasiness in the twelve month study, indicate that no reliance can be placed on patient judgement of skin texture and appearance.
Grimy
Definition:
(superl.) Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
Example Sentences:
(1) And with the grimy dual carriageway of the Cromwell Road cutting across it, it's no wonder that many pedestrians preferred to take the dank Victorian tunnel that runs under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the Science Museum.
(2) In a grimy backroom of one neighbourhood mosque, Jan Mohammad, a blind hafez – a memoriser of the Qur’an – said he was unsure Omar had ever existed.
(3) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(4) People around, young people in general can see what engineering is and the fact that it is no longer a mucky, oily, grimy place to work but it is a light, airy, clean environment," he said.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Midnight Special opens like a classic crime thriller: a missing-child alert on local TV news describes two men and a boy, who then appear before us in a grimy motel room, their behaviour contradicting the idea that the boy has been abducted.
(6) There's a believability to it – these characters aren't superheroes, they have this griminess to them, these nuances.
(7) The remake runs on rails from A to Z, and what Wiseman gains in his grimy, ill-lit visuals he loses in the acting: everyone here is a name actor who bores me (Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale – AKA Mrs Wiseman), or an actor I love (Bryan Cranston, Bill Nighy) being underused or miscast.
(8) He brought his hand to his face, covered in a paste of blood and dust beneath a shock of grimy hair, and looked at the red stain on his fingers, a look of quiet surprise on his face.
(9) When you are all sweaty and grimy in the heat of the city, this is the most delicious and refreshing thing ever – and super cheap.
(10) For the trademark exterior shots of grimy terrace homes, opening directly on to the street, the team use a small area around Theed Street in Waterloo, close to the Old and Young Vic theatres.
(11) At the local administration, the doors of the nearby cafe burst open and dozens of children, grimy, bloodied and some limp, were hurriedly carried out into the street by police and bystanders.
(12) Tinder uses the same GPS capabilities as Grindr – the wildly popular and barefacedly grimy gay hook-up app – but requires every user to have a Facebook account, which gives it a safer air.
(13) Along with Atos and Serco and the rest of the grimy battery of state contractors, that means a new significance for the army of voluntary organisations struggling to pick up the pieces, often with some Whitehall blessing.
(14) But the worst are shikumen s, no matter how historically significant or beautiful, that have become so decrepit and grimy from decades of overcrowding, heavy communal usage and minimal infrastructural investment by residents and local authorities.
(15) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
(16) A few blocks away, beneath the 101 freeway, you could find the likes of Paul Checoine, a former bicycle messenger sunk in a grimy wheelchair, stricken with disease, drug addiction and mental illness, chattering a mile a minute to nobody in particular as traffic roared overhead.
(17) Today B29 is showing its age and looks more like a dirty old dock than a pool with its crumbling grey concrete, grimy brickwork and old ducts and sections of corroding pipes.
(18) Gupta, who says he has conducted more than 50,000 such operations, told Reuters news agency that health workers gave the women Indian-manufactured brands of ciprofloxacin , a commonly prescribed antibiotic, and ibuprofen, a pain killer, after the operations, which were conducted in a grimy room of an unused private hospital in a village.
(19) Against the cell’s peeling walls and grimy sink and toilet, Ai’s stool and Fela’s saxophone hold out the promise of bold but joyous antagonism.
(20) "We're dealing with a hundred years of suppression," said Berrington, streaked and grimy from round-the-clock battle.