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 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

He might have so painted, if oil and water had been combined, and the vehicle rendered saponaceous, which it probably was.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various

It requires attention that an excess of dryer renders oil saponaceous, is inimical to drying, and is otherwise injurious.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas