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soft soap - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | soft soap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liquid soap |
| Synonyms: | blarney, flattery, cajolery, fluid soap, semifluid soap |
| Main Entry: | blarney |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery |
| Synonyms: | adulation, baloney*, exaggeration, fawning*, honey*, incense, oil*, soft soap*, sweet talk*, a line, blandishment, cajolery, coaxing, compliments, eyewash, ingratiation, inveiglement, overpraise, soft words, wheedling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cajole |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt to coax; flatter |
| Synonyms: | banter, beguile, blandish, bootlick*, brownnose*, build up, butter up*, con, crowd, deceive, decoy, delude, dupe, entice, entrap, induce, influence, inveigle, jolly, lure, maneuver, massage, mislead, oil*, push, seduce, snow*, soap*, soften, stroke, tantalize, tempt, urge, wheedle, apple polish, argue into, get around, get next to, hand a line, lay it on thick, make up to, play up to, rub the right way, soft-soap, spread it on, suck up to, sweet-talk, sweeten up, work on, work over |
| Antonyms: | bully, force, repel |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | coax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | persuade |
| Synonyms: | allure, barter, beguile, blandish, blarney, butter up*, cajole, come on, con, decoy, entice, flatter, get, hook, importune, induce, influence, inveigle, lure, pester, plague, press, soothe, tease, tempt, urge, wangle, wheedle, argue into, arm-twist, jawbone, prevail upon, rope in, soft-soap, sweet-talk, talk into, work on, worm |
| Antonyms: | allow, not care |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flattery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false praise, compliments |
| Synonyms: | adulation, applause, approbation, blarney*, commendation, encomium, eulogy, fawning*, flattering, gallantry, gratification, incense, laud, mush*, palaver, plaudits, puffery*, smoke*, snow*, snow job*, stroke*, sweet talk*, tribute, blandishment, bootlicking, cajolery, eyewash, flummery, fulsomeness, hokum, honeyed words, ingratiation, jive*, obsequiousness, pretty speech, servility, soft words, soft-soap, sycophancy, toadyism, truckling, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | condemnation, criticism, denunciation, insult, offense, belittlement, castigation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grovel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abase, demean oneself |
| Synonyms: | apple-polish, beg, beg for mercy, beseech, blandish, bootlick*, bow and scrape, brown-nose, butter up*, cater to, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, eat crow*, eat dirt, eat humble pie, fall all over, fawn*, flatter, humble oneself, humor, implore, kiss one's feet, kneel, kowtow*, make much of, make up to, pamper, play up to, prostrate*, revere, snivel, soft-soap, stoop, suck up to, truckle*, wheedle, yes* |
| Antonyms: | boast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | induce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to happen; encourage |
| Synonyms: | abet, activate, actuate, argue into, breed, bring about, bring around, bulldoze*, cajole, cause, coax, convince, draw, draw in, effect, engender, generate, get up, get*, give rise to, goose*, impel, incite, influence, instigate, lead to, make, motivate, move, occasion, persuade, press, prevail upon, procure, produce, promote, prompt, sell one on, set in motion, soft-soap, squeeze, steamroll, suck in, sway, sweet-talk, talk into*, twist one's arm, urge, wheedle, win over* |
| Antonyms: | discourage, halt, hinder, prevent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inducement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incentive, motive |
| Synonyms: | attraction, bait, brainwash*, cause, come-on*, con*, consideration, desire, encouragement, hard sell, hook*, impulse, incitement, influence, leader, lure, reward, snow job*, soft soap*, spur, stimulus, sweet talk*, temptation, twist, urge, carrot* |
| Notes: | the temporal orientation of incentive is toward the future; that of inducement is toward the past |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, hindrance, prevention, disincentive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lobby |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | press for political action |
| Synonyms: | advance, affect, alter, bill, boost, build up, change, drum, further, hard sell, hype*, induce, influence, modify, persuade, pitch, plug, press, pressure, procure, promote, push, request, sell, solicit, splash, spot, sway, thump, urge, billboard, bring pressure to bear, campaign for, exert influence, high pressure, make a pitch for, politick, pull strings, put pressure on, sell on, soft-sell, soft-soap, solicit votes, sweet-talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bombast, bull*, bunk*, claptrap*, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, hogwash*, hot air*, imprudence, inanity, jazz, jest, joke, madness, mumbo jumbo*, palaver, poppycock*, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, silliness, soft soap*, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe*, bananas, giddiness, hooey, irrationality, jive*, ludicrousness, senselessness |
| Antonyms: | clarity, common sense, fact, sense, truth, understanding, intelligibility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wheedle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk into |
| Synonyms: | banter, blandish, butter up*, cajole, charm, coax, con, court, draw, entice, finagle, flatter, inveigle, kowtow*, oil*, persuade, seduce, snow*, soap*, lay it on, soft-soap, soften up, spread it on, sweet-talk, sweeten up, work on, worm* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snow job |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misrepresentation |
| Synonyms: | bill of goods, con, flattery, flimflam, scam, smoke and mirrors, soft sell, soft soap, song and dance, conning, hosing, ripoff, the business |
| Main Entry: | soft sell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | low-key sales pitch |
| Synonyms: | soft soap, sweet talk, blandishment, low-pressure salesmanship, low-pressure selling |
| Main Entry: | sweet talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flattery for favor |
| Synonyms: | blarney, flattery, incense, snow job, soft soap, blandishment, cajolery, fair words, honeyed words, insincere flattery, nobbling, smooth talk, sweet nothings |
| Main Entry: | flatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compliment excessively |
| Synonyms: | adulate, blandish, bootlick*, brownnose*, build up*, butter up*, cajole, charm, con, court, fawn*, glorify, grovel, humor, inveigle, jolly, massage, oil*, praise, salve, sell, snow*, soften*, stroke, toady*, wheedle, beslaver, cater to, get next to, lay it on thick, overpraise, play up to, rub the right way, soft-soap, spread it on, suck up to, sweet-talk, sweeten up, work on, work over |
| Antonyms: | belittle, castigate, condemn, criticize, denounce, insult, offend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an untruth |
| Synonyms: | beguile, bull*, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe*, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, invent, make believe, malign, misinform, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, palter, perjure, pervert, phony, plant*, prevaricate, promote, put on*, snow*, string along*, victimize, BS, be untruthful, bear false witness, break promise, go back on, misguide, misinstruct, misspeak, overdraw, put up a front, soft-soap |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | persuasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influencing to do, believe |
| Synonyms: | alignment, alluring, brainwashing*, cogency, con*, conversion, enticement, exhortation, force, hard sell, hook*, inducement, persuasiveness, potency, power, promote, pull*, seduction, sell*, snow job*, soft soap*, squeeze*, sweet talk*, arm-twist, blandishment, cajolery, goose*, inveiglement, wheedling, winning over, working over |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, hindrance, prevention, dissuasion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exchange an object for money |
| Synonyms: | advertise, auction, bargain, barter, boost, close, contract, dispose, drum, dump, exchange, handle, hawk, hustle, market, merchandise, move, peddle, persuade, pitch, plug, puff*, push, retail, retain, snow, soft sell*, soft soap*, spiel*, stock, sweet talk*, trade, traffic, unload, vend, wholesale, be in business, clinch the deal, close the deal, deal in, put across, put up for sale |
| Antonyms: | buy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | particular type of trick, misleading |
| Synonyms: | artifice, blind, cheat, chicanery, crocodile tears*, deception, dirty work*, duplicity, fake, feint, flimflam*, fraud, hoax, humbug, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, shift, smoke and mirrors*, snow job*, soft soap*, spoof, stratagem, subterfuge, sweet talk*, swindle, trick, whitewash*, wile, dirty trick, fraudulence, sellout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretended behavior |
| Synonyms: | affectation, attitude, bit*, fake, false front*, front, performance, phony, pose, posture, pretense, sham, show, simulation, soft soap*, stall, stance, stunt, sweet talk*, chaser, dissimilation, feigning, put-on, shuck and jive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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