Noun soft soap has 2 senses
- blarney, coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk - flattery designed to gain favor
--1 is a kind of flattery
- soft soap, green soap - a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases
--2 is a kind of soap
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Verb soft soap has 2 senses
- soft-soap - persuade someone through flattery
--1 is one way to wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle
Sample sentence:
They soft-soap him into writing the letter
- soft-soap - use flattering talk on somebody
--2 is one way to flatter, blandish
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue soft-soap
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