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Definition of Soapily
1. in a soapy manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soapily
Literary usage of Soapily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... or other strong purchase, had been applied; but continuing all the while it
was putting forth its power, to glide soapily along, quite unconcernedly, ..."
2. Crotchets and Quavers: Or, Revelations of an Opera Manager in America by Max Maretzek (1855)
"They had not heard the tenor's Italian and soapily improvised explanation.
Simply did they understand, that the Manager as well as the vocalist were both in ..."
3. Crotchets and Quavers: Or, Revelations of an Opera Manager in America by Max Maretzek (1855)
"They had not heard the tenor's Italian and soapily improvised explanation.
Simply did they understand, that the Manager as well as the vocalist were both in ..."
4. Hearts Courageous by Hallie Erminie Rives (1902)
"In the wooded bottom the river shivered with the tumbling foam of steep torrents
and went slipping soapily over ledges and between wild acres of mottled ..."
5. Trouting in Norway by Edmund Francis Burton (1897)
"... and by many waterfalls, one of which is of large volume, showing like silver
ribbons, and sliding soapily down the steep mountains' sides. ..."
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