lathery
Example Sentences
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This lathery adaptation, directed by Charles Jarrott for the producer Hal B. Wallis, stars a blonde Vanessa Redgrave as a swoony Mary and Glenda Jackson as a carnivorous Elizabeth.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018
The last of the entrees, a juicy veal filet mignon, featured the nice salty crunch of a green sage and breadcrumb crust and the lathery sweetness of a parsnip-hazelnut purée.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2010
With a few exceptions like La Bibbia, Italy's fumetti are sentimental soap-opera plots, as pure as they are lathery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next week a frustrated soap-opera character will have the dubious distinction of turning up in two lathery melodramas at the same time.
From Time Magazine Archive
The one that was a bedroom had gay Navajo blankets on the floor, and a stove in it, and a little bureau, and a washstand with white towels and good lathery soap.
From Roughing it De Luxe by McCutcheon, John T.
