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Definition of Greasier
1. greasy [adj] - See also: greasy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greasier
Literary usage of Greasier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg (1913)
"I found the back of my pretty frocks becoming grimier and grimier, and greasier
and greasier, and, as I provided my own gowns and had to be economical, ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"'It feels like warm thin butter;' 'there is a little coolness in the pressure,
it may be an oily damp; now it is a little greasier than anything else, ..."
3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... previously boiled, which they wrapped in a linen rag that was greasier than
a kitchen-cloth. This poultice lasted me a fortnight, so that it became hard ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... perhaps« though that was hardly in nature, greasier than it perhaps absolutely
was under the shadow of his broad-brim, which, quaker as he was, ..."
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