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soft-shell
adjective as in compassionate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in counterfeit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in forbearing
adjective as in lenient
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- allowing
- amiable
- assuaging
- assuasive
- being big
- benignant
- charitable
- clement
- complaisant
- condoning
- easy
- easygoing
- emollient
- excusing
- favoring
- forbearing
- gentle
- going easy on
- good-natured
- humoring
- kind
- kindly
- letting
- live with
- loving
- merciful
- mild
- mollycoddling
- obliging
- pampering
- pardoning
- permitting
- soft
- softhearted
- sparing
- spoiling
- tender
- yielding
Example Sentences
Pine nuts, bacon, soft-shell crab—these are the flavors of caterpillars, beetles, and tarantulas, if you can believe it.
With their meatier body, tarantulas are said to taste like to soft-shell crab or shrimp.
It is partial to the “soft-shell” crabs and small tortoises common in the American waters.
Also deviled whitebait; also shrimps of choice quality; and a platter of small soft-shell crabs of a most superior breed.
There is a weir in the river, in the deep waters of which it is said there are a very great number of soft-shell tortoises.
Before soft shell crabs are cooked, the sand-pocket and spongy substances under the edges of the shell should be removed.
The soft-shell crab is blanched five minutes, and fried like fish.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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