Usually means: Flattering speech used to persuade.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word soft soap:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft soap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. soft-soap, soft soap: Merriam-Webster
  3. soft soap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. soft-soap, soft soap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. soft-soap, soft-soap, soft soap: Collins English Dictionary
  6. soft-soap, soft soap: Vocabulary.com
  7. soft-soap, soft soap: Wordnik
  8. soft-soap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. soft-soap, soft soap: Wiktionary
  10. soft-soap, soft soap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. soft soap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. soft-soap, soft soap: Dictionary.com
  13. Soft soap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. soft-soap, soft soap: Rhymezone
  15. SOFT SOAP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. Soft Soap: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. soft-soap, soft soap: FreeDictionary.org
  18. soft-soap, soft soap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. soft-soap, soft soap, soft soap (medicinal): TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. soft soap, soft soap (medicinal): Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft soap: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. soft soap (medicinal): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. soft-soap, soft soap: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft soap, soft soap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. soft soap: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See soft_soaping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (soft soap)

noun:  Any jellyish soap made by cooking natural oils and fats with potassium hydroxide.
noun:  Any fluid or semifluid soap.
noun:  Alternative spelling of soft-soap (“flattery, persuasion”). [Persuasion by means of flattery or pleasing words.]
verb:  Alternative spelling of soft-soap [To attempt to persuade by flattery or pleasing words; to butter up.]

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