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

The cortical part of the root yields a milky saponaceous juice which is very bitter and slightly sedative.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

The saliva is a saponaceous liquor, destitute of taste or smell, which is squeezed out from these glands, and mixed with the food during mastication.

From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas

When dry it did not fear water; though a saponaceous medium, it was not again soluble in water.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various