saponaceous
Example Sentences
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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
At the age of 37, Oumansky was Washington's youngest Ambassador�suave, saponaceous, brilliant and astute.
From Time Magazine Archive
That one little cake saponaceous can make When the soap slips under the tub— Blank!
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
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
The pulp was then washed and made into paper and thereafter dipped in a saponaceous compound.
