soft soap

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Noun Phrase

THESAURUS

soft soap

Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, adulation, advocate, allurement, be hypocritical, blandish, blandishment, blandness, blarney, bunkum, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolement, cajolery, call on, call upon, cant, coax, coaxing, compliment, conning, empty gesture, engagement, enlistment, exhort, exhortation, eyewash, fair words, false piety, fawning, flattery, fulsomeness, get around, give lip service, give mouth honor, glibness, grease, high-pressure, honey, honeyed phrases, honeyed words, hortation, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, importune, incense, inducement, insist, insist upon, jawbone, jawboning, jolly, kid along, lay it on, lip service, lobby, lobbying, mealymouthedness, mouth, mouthing, mummery, nag, oil, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, overdo it, palaver, persuasion, pharisaism, play the hypocrite, play up to, plead with, praise, preaching, preachment, press, pressure, pretty lies, push, recommend, reek of piety, religiosity, render lip service, sales talk, salesmanship, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, selling, smoothness, smugness, snivel, snow job, snuffle, snuffling, soap, soft words, soften up, solicitation, string along, stroke, suasion, suaveness, suavity, sweet nothings, sweet talk, sweet words, sweet-talk, sycophancy, tokenism, unctuousness, urge, wheedle, wheedling, work on, working on

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soft soap

Flattery

N flattery, adulation, gloze, blandishment, blandiloquence, cajolery, fawning, wheedling, captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft- hunting, snobbishness, incense, honeyed words, flummery, bunkum, buncombe, blarney, placebo, butter, soft soap, soft sawder, rose water, voice of the charmer, mouth honor, lip homage, euphemism, unctuousness, flattering, adulatory, mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed, honeyed, smooth, smooth-tongued, soapy, oily, unctuous, blandiloquent, specious, fine-spoken, fair spoken, plausible, servile, sycophantic, fulsome, courtierly, courtier-like, ad captandum.

Oil

N oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber, glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine, soap, soft soap, wax, cerement, paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere, petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil, vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil, animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil, ointment, unguent, liniment, aceite, amole, Barbados tar, fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil, hydrate of amyl, ghee, heating oil, #2 oil, No, 2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline, naphtha, stearin.