What's the difference between oily and smarmy?

Oily


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wistar rats were infected by injection of 0.05 ml of a dense oily suspension of Staphylococcus aureus into the posterior thigh muscles of the hind leg.
  • (2) Nutritionists recommend we consume two portions a week of fish, including one of oily fish such as mackerel, herring and tuna.
  • (3) Our experience with these three patients, plus the two previously reported, suggest that two conditions must be present for oily material to enter the ventricular system through the outlets of the fourth ventricle: first, there must be a reversal of bulk flow of cerebrospinal fluid; second, the oily material must have a specific gravity less than that of cerebrospinal fluid.
  • (4) One group ate a diet high in saturated fat, salt and sugar, and low in fibre, oily fish and fruit and vegetables.
  • (5) Incubation of blood neutrophils with uterine flushings collected from ovariectomised mares treated with oestradiol, stimulated migration under agarose, whereas flushings from mares treated with progesterone or oily vehicle, inhibited migration.
  • (6) This characteristic of the oily contrast medium has been utilized for regional targeting of chemotherapy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, which has been termed "lipiodolization".
  • (7) CT scan and gamma camera radiograph confirmed that the oily contrast material or I-131 radioactivity accumulated selectively in the tumor over a long period.
  • (8) Of course we depend on oil companies because there is no other work.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Canals full of oily water created during the cleanup process.
  • (9) The previous strict separation between water soluble, ionised media for the lumbal canal and oily media for the lumbosacral junction as well as the thoracic and cervical canal is no longer necessary.
  • (10) The many factors which affect absorption rate are discussed and it is suggested that preparations which depend on an oily gel to delay absorption add an avoidable factor to the list of variables which may play an important part in producing the significant differences in serum levels commonly reported after the use of PAM preparations.
  • (11) The figure includes around 29,000 deaths hastened by inhaling minute particles of oily, unburnt soot emitted by all petrol engines, and an estimated 23,500 by the invisible but toxic gas NO 2 emitted by diesel engines.
  • (12) Mackerel, an oily fish packed with Omega 3, has been championed by celebrity chefs such as Guardian writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, who in his Channel 4 Fish Fight programme persuaded sceptical consumers to eat his mackerel baps.
  • (13) The oily x-ray contrast medium persisted in the tumours over several weeks or months.
  • (14) "Lipiodol-Ultra-Fluid" an oily contrast medium which has used in experiments with minipigs can be radiologically and histologically demonstrated in nodes for months.
  • (15) Similar biological activities were obtained for oily and dry preparations of the same forms of alpha-tocopheryl acetate.
  • (16) The introduction of an oily retinylacetate solution into the fistula was attended both by an increase of the retinylpalmitate content in the blood plasma and the appearance therein of the retinyl-palmitat-hydrolase activity.
  • (17) Successful entrapment was achieved with the following conditions: (1) an alkaline water phase, (2) addition of fatty acid salt in the oily phase, and (3) addition of a water-miscible solvent in the oily phase.
  • (18) According to the British Heart Foundation, many doctors now prescribe fish oil supplements to reduce blood fats, although the BHF also recommends eating more oily fish.
  • (19) Forty-one CT sialograms were performed in 35 patients using acinar glandular filling with oily contrast material.
  • (20) Triglyceride is the major lipid class in most of these fishes with oily bones (74.1-93.7% as per cent lipid); cholesterol and phospholipid were two other lipid classes in the bones.

Smarmy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I didn’t go to Eton and get all that smarmy, charming education, I’m afraid.
  • (2) From someone junior at work, “nice dress” can be smarmy; from someone senior, it can be faintly pervy.
  • (3) Pardew has been sent from the touchline and will be in huge trouble for this - a manager with a history of touchline bust-ups against assorted opposite numbers and officials, his usual smarmy post-match apology is highly unlikely to save his bacon this time.
  • (4) After the United Nations reports on war crimes , the supply of Australian vessels to the Sri Lankan Navy to prevent the departure of people who want to escape, and the revelation that a former Sri Lankan military officer was overseeing the interment of Tamil asylum seekers on Manus Island, there was something about the smarminess of the exchange in that picture that caused me additional disgust and embarrassment.
  • (5) Or smarmy seducers wanting the fancy food as close to the bedroom as possible without the expense of a hotel.
  • (6) So the radio spot takes the form of a mock game show, voiced by a smarmy-sounding host who goes under the moniker of Wink Taxandspend (hilarious!).
  • (7) She's very warm but not smarmy, she's never impolite, she has the openness of someone who is never expecting high office – which she isn't, apparently, due to those pesky grammar schools.
  • (8) The Welsh secretary, Peter Hain, said: "We must not behave as if a Tory win is inevitable," and argued that unless the party picked itself up "we might as well wrap conference up now, go home and wait for David Cameron to give that smarmy smile of his from the steps of No 10".