Social life
Synonyms for unctuous
The synonym for unctuous recorded in this bank is smarmy, in the sense "excessively flattering or ingratiating in a way that seems insincere". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for unctuous
- smarmyadjective, in the sense "excessively flattering or ingratiating in a way that seems insincere"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day unctuous is audited in a second meaning.
excessively flattering or ingratiating in a way that seems insincere
The unctuous salesman complimented every customer's taste before pushing the upsell.
The true synonym
smarmy
Same sentence, swapped: The smarmy salesman complimented every customer's taste before pushing the upsell.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- blunt
- reserved
- efficient
Where unctuous turns up in the game
unctuous is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play unctuous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unctuous reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other social life words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. unctuous carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.