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

The previously-formed saponaceous mixture is now to be placed in the mortar, and the ready-formed emulsion in the runner; the soapy compound and the emulsion is then carefully blended together.

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

Anon the rev. clergyman, emerging from the vestry-room to the right, will pass along the front of this jungle to the prie-dieu, and so, framed in flowers, face the congregation with his saponaceous smile.

From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

The gate was open and a faint saponaceous exhalation struck upon my dilated nostrils.

From The War of the Wenuses by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)