"Also the most oily-tongued," Marta added.

Moreover, the competition is presided over by a slick-haired, oily-tongued master of ceremonies, here named Mick Hamilton and played by Gregory Harrison.

"Charles couldn't stand anything phony, whether it be presidents, governors, oily-tongued clergymen or razor blades," the priest told a group that included socialites, journalists and many blue-collar drinking buddies.

Observing Kwame's frustration, Olu (Brian Bovell), an oily-tongued mephistophelean gangster who oversees a crew of bandits, approaches him with an invitation to join the gang.

Condemned by one local newspaper as a “dangerous, double-dealing, oily-tongued adventurer”, Churchill was criticised for racking up expensive hotel bills during his stays, in marked contrast to the poverty of much of his electorate.

Serve that PR ponce right - blow-dried, overcharging, oily-tongued barrow boy looking to brown-nose half the world for a tithe or an invitation to one of those stately homes that captured his sort and then spat them out.

In "Malibu," the opening story, which takes place in 1953, a year after the father's death, an oily-tongued Frenchman named René, the mother's boyfriend, takes Richard out in a rowboat, where Richard is certain that the older man wants to kill him.