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
JR: The expansion definitely took a bottle of 18-year-old Scotch and poured soapy water in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But in Pedretti’s new “Forbidden Fruits,” a horror-comedy directed by Meredith Alloway making her feature debut and produced by “Jennifer’s Body” screenwriter Diablo Cody, the actor shines in all-new soapy splendor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
My movement startled her, and she stepped backwards, kicking over the bucket of soapy water, and the dirty suds rushed down the steps.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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
“The Night Of …” was written by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian, though, and Mr. Moffat’s own work, including “Criminal Justice” and the legal drama “Silk,” is slicker and soapier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
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
