soapy
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Talc is a natural mineral made of magnesium, silicon, oxygen and hydrogen, known for its soapy feel and is often used in baby powder.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Instead, she unwisely took a soapy dishcloth to your table, which probably made the stain worse.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
First, a soapy sponge—nothing fancy, just one of the cheap ones, sudsed up with a dish soap that smells good.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
These stories may sound like soapy twists in a Taylor Sheridan drama or cable TV movie, but they actually come straight from one of the bestselling books of all time — the Bible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
Globs of spent toothpaste were stuck to the side of the sink, and the shower was covered with a soapy film.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
It’s a little soapier, and faster, than some of your faves, but it scratches that same itch.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2019
It has seemed soapier than it did in the first place, and even then it sure was soapy.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019
For black professional women like Mary Jane, however, those other considerations make that quest an ever-more challenging undertaking, a truth the series excels at examining even as it traffics in soapier elements.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2019
Add in the acrimonies and resentments among his adult children and you’ve basically got a “Dallas” in the making, but the series shuns some of its soapier tendencies for deadly serious authenticity.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2018
Frost leaned more heavily into the soapier and kookier elements of the series.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2017
As a result, X-Men became, as Howe put it, “the soapiest soap saga ever put forth by the House of Ideas, filled with agonized romances, self-confidence crises, lectures on morality, psychic scars, and worrying.”
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2019
Jane the Virgin is a telenovela that, along with the soapiest of plot shenanigans, has taken on joy, loss, immigration, and breast-feeding.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2018
Yet despite all that, a hostile takeover attempt, and Lucious’s getting sent to jail in the final moments, the soapiest moment was both a throwback and a nod to present-day.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
Even the soapiest element of the pilot—Rayna and Juliette's "feud"—is very understated.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2013
That, to be sure, was nothing spectacular for the script of All My Children, one of television's soapiest midday dramas.
From Time Magazine Archive
