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Meanings of soapy in inglés
Resembling or having the qualities of soap.
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Examples for "oily"
Examples for "oily"
1
The sea looked almost solid, like churning, oily lumps rather than water.
2
The air shimmered with oily heat as the B-17's engines built power.
3
The castor oil seed resembles in chemical composition the other oily seeds.
4
The meal proceeded in silence save for an oily sarcasm from Henson.
5
The most effective are omega-3 fats, which occur naturally in oily fish.
1
Run to the buttery; his goatship will be wanting butter and cheese.
2
This recipe uses cornflour and icing sugar to create the buttery texture.
3
Soon, the first of the scholars came rapping upon the buttery hatch.
4
I saw heaps and heaps of it in Farmer Green's buttery yesterday.
5
You're thinking of those amazing rashers that don't shrink, with buttery toast.
1
Varys slithered to his feet, smiling in that unctuous way he had.
2
John Michael Higgins is all unctuous anxiety as Evan's chief of staff.
3
Canadian Shakespearean actor Douglas Rain won the role with neutral, unctuous tones.
4
But such a man is all the more bound to be unctuous.
5
Enough, that a very unctuous business was made of it that morning.
1
But Russia's embrace of Greece has so far been less than fulsome.
2
Reviewers, impressed by the weight of research and writing, have been fulsome.
3
North, back on the left wing, earned fulsome praise from Jim Mallinder.
4
The fulsome flatterer of former times has degenerated into a chronic fault-finder.
5
Mrs Moffatt was talking about her, gushing over her, in fulsome phrases.
1
Actually, those two pretty much set off my smarmy meter twenty-four, seven.
2
Instead, on the dais, he wore his usual expression of smarmy piety.
3
I need that file. Davis blew Ana a smarmy kiss and obeyed.
4
Their responses to widespread, serious criticism can be grandiose and smarmy.
5
It also explained the smarmy director, who'd given me a few creepy looks.
1
Here, we report the genome sequence of the oleaginous A. oryzae BCC7051.
2
However, these mutants still have a lower TAG productivity than wild-type oleaginous microalgae.
3
The result was the same with oleaginous seeds: such as castor-oil and sunflower.
4
That was what caused that greasy, oleaginous appearance of the wound.
5
He was much more the apostle than the oleaginous counter of theological paperclips.
Usage of soapy in inglés
1
Residents said the treated water is clear but a bit soapy tasting.
2
A few minutes later Kote returned with a bucket of soapy water.
3
The statuette went to Jane Fonda for the somewhat soapy Coming Home.
4
Wash the aprons in hot, soapy water; boil, rinse, and blue slightly.
5
The bubble felt hard and slippery, like a glass in soapy water.
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Wanda finished filling the sink with soapy water and found a sponge.
7
She broke a nail, and the soapy water destroyed her Chanel flats.
8
Bubbles and soapy water dripped from her perfect hand onto the floor.
9
A ration of meat, vegetables, and soapy water, contained in a tin.
10
External Abscess.-Boilthe knife, wash your hands in clean, hot, soapy water.
11
Thus passed three minutes, then she again began rubbing the soapy garment.
12
She was sopping up a soapy pool with an all-encompassing gray scrub-rag.
13
She came to the door, wiping her soapy hands upon an apron.
14
I give my soapy hair a quick rinse, step out, dry off.
15
The stone turned soft and soapy and then melted like candle wax.
16
Also on the plate were two soapy boiled potatoes, wet and slimy.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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