Usually means: Flatter to persuade or manipulate.
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  1. soft-soap: Merriam-Webster
  2. soft-soap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. soft-soap, soft-soap: Collins English Dictionary
  4. soft-soap: Vocabulary.com
  5. soft-soap: Wordnik
  6. soft-soap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. soft-soap: Wiktionary
  8. soft-soap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. soft-soap: Dictionary.com
  10. soft-soap: Rhymezone
  11. soft-soap: FreeDictionary.org
  12. soft-soap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. soft-soap: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. soft-soap: Idioms

(Note: See soft-soaped as well.)

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noun:  Persuasion by means of flattery or pleasing words.
verb:  To attempt to persuade by flattery or pleasing words; to butter up.

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