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• a  resembling or having the qualities of soap
  a soapy consistency
• s  unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
  soapy compliments

• It's soapy, but Over There was too, with affairs and home-base family dramas along with the IED blasts.
• And it's at the soapy, singing center of most Bollywood films.
• It's a big, soapy, heartwarming novel, which is good if you like big, soapy, heartwarming novels, and bad if you don't.

• saponaceous
• buttery
• fulsome
• oily
• oleaginous
• smarmy
• unctuous

News & Articles

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• Sponsored Post: The Best of the Wackiest “Pretty Little Liars” Looks
  As Fug Nation knows, we are avid Pretty Little Liars watchers, in part because we love a good, soapy twist and turn — but also because that show can bring wardrobe drama like no other.
  June 11, 2013 - Go Fug Yourself
• Swedish Royal Wedding: Well Played, Princess Madeleine/Predictably Played, Princess Sadface
  Princess Madeleine — who, incidentally, turns 31 today — is fourth in line for the Swedish throne, and got married over the weekend to a British-American banker she met in the U.S. But it is juicy and soapy, just as we would always want royal shenanigans to be: She met Chris O’Neill when she fled here after a broken engagement that it SOUNDS like she had to pretend was still intact long enough ...
  June 10, 2013 - Go Fug Yourself
• If There's A Hip-Hop Scene In Alaska, You Have No Excuses
  from left to right: Aaron, Elliott, Manner, Soapy Smiff, Organik, Phonetic, and Adamn Excuse Guys are the worst. These dudes "would be" chasing their dreams if they just knew the right people, or didn't have to work so much, or lived in a better place. Instead, they walk around miserable, pissed-off that life didn't deal [...]
  June 7, 2013 - MTV

Quotes

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• Keira Knightley in Contactmusic.com
  Knightley tells Moviefone.com, "I think we're both used to doing things like that in our job. It was very soapy water, and it was a closed set and all the rest of it. And I actually had clothing on. She didn't. Well, I had something on. No, it was...
• Jenji Kohan in Los Angeles Times
  And she's done it without being "particularly 'soapy' or melodramatic in her acting," Kohan added.
• Ben Silverman in Telegraph.co.uk
  Silverman, whose hits include Ugly Betty and the American version of The Office, said: "We are being truthful to the period while at the same time telling the story through a soapy, passionate, violent and contemporary filter. It's more like Baz...