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

It requires attention that an excess of dryer renders oil saponaceous, is inimical to drying, and is otherwise injurious.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

As oxide of zinc does not readily form a saponaceous compound with fats or oil like white lead, the paint prepared with it and ordinary linseed oil does not dry or harden so rapidly.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous."

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose