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soft-soap
 
Noun soft-soap has 2 senses
  1. blarney, coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk - flattery designed to gain favor
    --1 is a kind of flattery
  2. soft soap, green soap - a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases
    --2 is a kind of soap
Verb soft-soap has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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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