soapy
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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
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
The arrival of the soapy “Scream 7” is a rare example of a 1990s cultural artifact that has survived, though its pulse is weakening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
“We need warm soapy water,” the teacher said.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
At the same time "The Vow" doesn't completely eschew the soapier aspects of this case.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2020
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
I hadn’t heard any of the songs which, people said, were wilier and more mischievous than the straighter, soapier, we’re-in-love-now ballads that defined Disney movies past.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 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
