greasy

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They are dying to get their greasy mitts on him.

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containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"

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adjective

containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"

adjective

smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for greasy.

adjective

containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds"

adjective

smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"

Example sentences

They are dying to get their greasy mitts on him.

Suit + tie is for old men or greasy sales people.

Even fat and greasy, to add to the image.

Their tummies are bit heavy with greasy hamburgers.

Furthermore, why must I live inside this sack of greasy skin, with all these disgusting organs?

Can you justify eating a cheap, greasy cheeseburger?

I'm put off when I hear people focusing on it rather than content and it makes me think of greasy, scummy, snake-oil salesmen.

True, some have the temperament and luck to scale the greasy pole of "success", but many others don't -- or choose to focus their energies elsewhere.

Feature request: /shakespeare/:name/:from returns ':name, Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!

"Hey look, we have an internet information expert saying this is stupid" is much more effective than "Hey look, we have a greasy 17 year old neckbeard complaining he won't be able to look at porn".

Being appalled by McDonalds is an international sport after all...There really isn't that much of a problem with eating a greasy deep-fried cheeseburger once in a while, and there isn't a problem with skipping a meal or two and having a shake instead.

From the perpective of a manager who has climbed the greasy pole to luxury while workers suffer horrible working conditions, who is the idiot?I would argue that classifying people as idiots is not useful and obscures the real differences in outlook which produce this sort of friction.