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soft-soaping

soft-soaping is the present participle and gerund 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-soaping

What is soft-soaping the present participle and gerund of?
Soft-soaping is the present participle and gerund of soft-soap.

Words near soft-soaping in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soft-soaping (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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