A word used to describe a fallen from grace politician from Texas sent me scrambling for the online dictionaries yesterday. Here's what I found:
Hypocritically, complacently, or effusively earnest
Unpleasantly and insincerely flattering, friendly, or groveling
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, unctuous?
Smarmy?
Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next?
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“Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the
system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says.
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