saponaceous

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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

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

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

Some Mexican species produce pods that are boiled and eaten, and certain portions contain saponaceous properties.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

This Medicine, which is termed in Latin, the Polygala Virginiana, is certainly rather of a saponaceous attenuating Quality, and betrays not any Marks of Acidity, being rather moderately acrid.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)