[syn: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Soapy \Soap"y\, a. [Compar. Soapier; superl. Soapiest.]
1. Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like,
soap; soft and smooth.
[1913 Webster]
2. Smeared with soap; covered with soap.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
soapy
adj 1: resembling or having the qualities of soap; "a soapy
consistency" [syn: saponaceous, soapy]
2: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner
or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome
introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous
hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah
Heep"; "soapy compliments" [syn: buttery, fulsome,
oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "soapy":
adipose, adulatory, barmy, bland, blandishing, blarneying,
blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cajoling, chrismal, chrismatory,
complimentary, courtierly, courtly, disarming, fair-spoken, fat,
fatty, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, foam-flecked, foamy,
frothy, fulsome, glib, greasy, gushing, heady, honey-mouthed,
honey-tongued, honeyed, ingratiating, insincere, insinuating,
lardaceous, lardy, lathery, mealymouthed, mucoid, obsequious, oily,
oily-tongued, oleaginous, oleic, rich, sebaceous, sleek, slick,
slimy, slippery, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken,
smooth-tongued, smug, soapsuddy, soapsudsy, soft-soaping,
soft-spoken, spumose, spumous, spumy, suave, suave-spoken, suddy,
sudsy, suety, sycophantic, tallowy, unctuous, unguent, unguentary,
unguentous, wheedling, yeasty