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soft-soapedverbpast tense of soft-soap to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flatteryshe cunningly soft-soaped her parents into letting her go on the trip blandished, blarneyed, cajoled, coaxed, palavered, sweet-talked, wheedled adulated, flattered, overpraisedbuttered up, charmed, massaged, wooedbegged, beseeched(or besought), importuned, urgedbeguiled, cozened, finagled, juggled, wangled, wiledenticed, lured, seduced, tempted bugged, harassed, nagged, pestered, teasedbrowbeat, bulldozed, bullied, cowed, intimidatedcoerced, compelled, constrained, demanded, forced, made, obliged, required to praise too muchshrewd voters who know when a politician is trying to soft-soap them adulated, belauded, blarneyed, buttered up, flattered, hero-worshipped(also hero-worshiped), honeyed(also honied), massaged, overpraised, puffed, stroked blandished, cajoled, coaxed, sweet-talked, wheedledfawned, kowtowed, sucked (up to), toadiedidolized, worshipped(also worshiped)eulogized, extolled, lauded, praisedapplauded, commended, complimentedcongratulated, felicitateddrooled, gushed, slavered, slobberedendeared, ingratiatedcourted, romanced, wooed bad-mouthed, belittled, decried, depreciated, disparaged, put down |