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soapy

/soh-pee/US // ˈsoʊ pi //UK // (ˈsəʊpɪ) //

肥皂,肥皂水,肥皂泡,皂角

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    soap·i·er, soap·i·est.

    • : containing or impregnated with soap: soapy water.
    • : covered with soap or lather: soapy dishes.
    • : of the nature of soap; resembling soap: a soft, soapy fiber.
    • : pertaining to or characteristic of soap: a clean, soapy smell.
    • : Informal. characteristic or reminiscent of a soap opera; melodramatic; corny: a soapy plot.

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Examples

  • Preferably, the place you’re renting has a one-two setup—an outdoor shower for the initial emergency removals, then indoors for more soapy fine-tuning.

  • Instead of an eye-opening docuseries or a tear-jerking drama, it’s a reality show in the glossy, soapy Bravo mold.

  • For most of that time, all we see is soapy water ebbing and flowing over the stone tiles.

  • I found a brush used for washing dishes with a handle that holds a soapy gel is the ideal cleaning tool for things like that, and it's not expensive.

  • A soapy glass slipping through your fingers produces a shearing force — and possibly a crash.

  • I was totally resistant to it because I always thought that the minute that happened, it was likely to become soapy!

  • The characters in Pitch Dark can seem plucked from this soapy version of reality.

  • There is a steady flow of bowls of warm water, soapy and clear, delivered by a stream of helpers.

  • I stroke his muscles with a soapy washcloth, picking out the embedded flecks of glass with my fingernails.

  • The story is more rich and complicated than the trailers give away without any soapy melodrama.

  • After sweeping it is good to wipe the carpet with a cloth wrung out of warm, soapy water in which is a little ammonia.

  • Glycerine and soapy water, equal parts, may be introduced into the bowel for temporary relief of a persistent constipation.

  • Freydissa enforced her command by sending a mass of soapy cloth which she had just wrung out after the retreating Bertha.

  • Mr. Brown scrubbed him vigorously, and Bobby splashed and swam and churned the soapy water to foam.

  • At the bottom of the cliff, a hundred metres below the road on which you ride, break the soapy waves of the sea.