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 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)

The cortical part of the root yields a milky saponaceous juice which is very bitter and slightly sedative.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

When dry it did not fear water; though a saponaceous medium, it was not again soluble in water.

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