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

That one little cake saponaceous can make   When the soap slips under the tub— Blank!

From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)

Now proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

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