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- adverb In a
soapy way.
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Examples
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He stood there, with his unctuous fat face and piggy eyes, blessing us soapily, while the Muslims, being worldly in their worship, tried not to laugh, and the Hindoos fairly seethed.
Fiancée 2010
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He stood there, with his unctuous fat face and piggy eyes, blessing us soapily, while the Muslims, being worldly in their worship, tried not to laugh, and the Hindoos fairly seethed.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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He stood there, with his unctuous fat face and piggy eyes, blessing us soapily, while the Muslims, being worldly in their worship, tried not to laugh, and the Hindoos fairly seethed.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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Racism, sexism, homophobia, corruption - all are treated seriously, not soapily, and without a particularly liberal agenda.
The Guardian World News Alex Needham 2011
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razor-cheekboned star Jonathan Rhys Meyers hardly resembles an obese, gout-ridden fiftysomething and soapily entertaining.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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