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

Will this be the case with saponaceous oils?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

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

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas

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)