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

Dr. Russel greatly recommends the Use of Sea Water along with the saponaceous Medicines.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald