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soft-soapingverbpresent participle 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 blandishing, blarneying, cajoling, coaxing, palavering, sweet-talking, wheedling adulating, flattering, overpraisingbuttering up, charming, massaging, wooingbegging, beseeching, importuning, urgingbeguiling, cozening, finagling, juggling, wangling, wilingenticing, luring, seducing, tempting bugging, harassing, nagging, pestering, teasingbrowbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cowing, intimidatingcoercing, compelling, constraining, demanding, forcing, making, obliging, requiring to praise too muchshrewd voters who know when a politician is trying to soft-soap them adulating, belauding, blarneying, buttering up, flattering, hero-worshipping(also hero-worshiping), honeying, massaging, overpraising, puffing, stroking blandishing, cajoling, coaxing, sweet-talking, wheedlingfawning, kowtowing, sucking (up to), toadyingidolizing, worshipping(also worshiping)eulogizing, extolling, lauding, praisingapplauding, commending, complimentingcongratulating, felicitatingdrooling, gushing, slavering, slobberingendearing, ingratiatingcourting, romancing, wooing bad-mouthing, belittling, decrying, depreciating, disparaging, putting down |