Synonyms for soft-soap

Most common

fawn · inveigle · blandish

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Verb

Noun

Definitions

1. v. 1

   To attempt to persuade by flattery or pleasing words; to butter up.

2. n. 1

   Any jellyish soap made by cooking natural oils and fats with potassium hydroxide.

Related words

Other spellings

soft soap softsoap

Forms

Past participle

soft-soaped
e.g. soft-soaped → sweet-talked, blarneyed, stroked, fawned…

Example sentences

• fawn Gleam is a tan colored fawn owned by Rapunzel.
• inveigle Larsen tried to inveigle me into discussion.

By length

4 letters

soap¹, fawn¹, coax¹

6 letters

stroke¹, cajole²

7 letters

coaxing², blarney, wheedle

8 letters

flattery³, inveigle, blandish

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cajole² = 2 syllables).