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soft-soaped

soft-soaped is the simple past and past participle of soft-soap.

Meaning of soft-soap

Verb

soft-soap (third-person singular simple present soft-soaps, present participle soft-soaping, simple past and past participle soft-soaped)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To attempt to persuade by flattery or pleasing words; to butter up.

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Questions about soft-soaped

What is soft-soaped the simple past and past participle of?
Soft-soaped is the simple past and past participle of soft-soap.

Words near soft-soaped in the dictionary

  1. soft-shelled turtle
  2. soft-shelled turtles
  3. soft-shells
  4. soft-shoe
  5. soft-soap
  6. soft-soaped
  7. soft-soaping
  8. soft-soaps
  9. soft-spoken
  10. soft-sub
  11. soft-subbed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soft-soaped (page history and authors); soft-soap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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