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Recent Examples of soft-soap
Verb
President Donald Trump must stop begging and soft-soaping Vladimir Putin and use our military might to force him to give up his designs upon Ukraine and its neighbors. Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025 So do her successes in soft-soaping some recalcitrant senators into supporting the mission’s funding. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
Noun
People should wash any skin that comes into contact with the slurry with water and soft soap, before using a hand cream to avoid dryness and cracking. Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2024 Most of the questions aimed at the ironic American director of Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and Goodfellas were less softballs than soft soap, with reporters as interested in Scorsese’s favorite food — his mother’s lasagna recipe — as the movies in his peerless filmography. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024 Founder and creative director Joy Cho’s lifestyle brand offers whimsical products, spanning bandages to soft soap, as well as regular editorial content online. Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021 For spills or stains, spot cleaning with soft soap like Zero or Woolite. Rachel Klein, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021 Founder and Creative Director Joy Cho’s lifestyle brand offers whimsical products, spanning Band-Aids to soft soap as well as regular editorial content online. Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021 Later, barber is seen crouching on his bed, holding lighted match under jam jar of water, soft soap and boot blacking. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020 Potassium hydroxide, on the other hand, produces an easily soluble soft soap. C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soft-soap
Verb
  • In the video, Munn, who shares her daughter and 3-year-old son Malcolm with actor husband John Mulaney, 42, is holding her little girl excitedly, coaxing her to repeat it on camera.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Its land is farmed communally, and its lord, Master Kent (Harry Melling), is a benevolent soul who prefers coaxing and rewarding to ordering and punishing.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Those harmonies — simultaneously honeyed and gravelly, providing just enough support without overshadowing, yet so powerful and full of potential — echoes Whitten.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • Enjoy flavored nuts, such as those that are candied, glazed, or honied, in moderation.
    Selene Yeager, Health, 24 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Piled high into a thick, split-top bun, the tender chunks of lobster meat are mixed with a just-right amount of mayo (or with warm butter, if that’s your preference) and served with potato chips.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The seasonal menu leans into Southern ingredients and sustainability, with dishes like Carolina trout with lemon-dill butter or seared scallops over risotto.
    Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This whole thing seems staged, planned, finagled, massaged, bamboozled, lollygagged, and all sorts of other long, silly-sounding words that may not necessarily apply to this situation.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The market has grown quicker to discount anything that feels massaged or withheld.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The odds are that such sweet talk is going to inevitably run out or at least be intermittent.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • From there, according to the report, the sweet talk quickly moves to messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Google Chat or Telegram.
    Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
Verb
  • An attendee commended those who put the show together.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That same year, he was commended for his involvement in four arrests made by the burglary team.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Today’s Wordle Hints And Answer Wordle Bot’s Starting Word: SLATE My Starting Word Today: SPINE (480 words remaining) The Hint: Enthusiastic praise.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Others have shared their praise for Poehler, who helped Plaza speak about her grief for the first time since Baena's passing.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Know-nothings pretend that Schrader’s Bressonian mannerisms reveal the spiritual depths of contemporary crisis, when, in fact, Master Gardener repeats the same social-collapse paranoia that made secular reviewers overpraise the religious, racial, suicide-bomber topics of First Reformed.
    Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2023
  • He’s overpraised of course.
    Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023

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“Soft-soap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soft-soap. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.

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