saponaceous

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At the age of 37, Oumansky was Washington's youngest Ambassador�suave, saponaceous, brilliant and astute.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?"

From Time Magazine Archive

It requires attention that an excess of dryer renders oil saponaceous, is inimical to drying, and is otherwise injurious.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails?'

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Thus adjured, Eleonora, the eldest and tousley of head, gave her shoulder a hitch out of the straps, and sulkily held out a hand elegantly veined and marbled from the want of saponaceous applications.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville