saponaceous
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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
The previously-formed saponaceous mixture is now to be placed in the mortar, and the ready-formed emulsion in the runner; the soapy compound and the emulsion is then carefully blended together.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous."
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
The pulp was then washed and made into paper and thereafter dipped in a saponaceous compound.
