soft soap

Questions about soft soap

What does soft soap mean?

soft soap means "flattery designed to gain favor". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for soft soap?

Close synonyms include blarney, coaxing, sweet talk, green soap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is soft soap a common word?

soft soap is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.