Melodramatic

Usage examples of soapy.

Mrs Standage had once coxed an eight at Cambridge, of the outraged moral feelings of Soapy Clodd, of Detective-Inspector Cadover now grim and silent in a police car hurrying out to Croydon.

James, the first thing is to have a dish of hot soapy water to stick the cutlery into after each course, and a place to scrape away the leavings.

I had some little money set aside to buy an electric corn husker this autumn, but a soapy tit wank sounds like it would be better value.

Rose and Veronica waddled out of the kitchen with buckets slopping-full of soapy water in one hand and mops in the other.

The day before that, it had been his lot to remove what must have been thousands of tiny pieces of crystal from a chandelier in the front parlor, dip them in soapy water, rinse and polish them, and then rehang them.

It contains resin and mucilage, in addition to saponin, which is its leading principle, and by virtue of which decoctions of the root produce a soapy froth.

Throwing the soapy flannel at Scofflaw, he leaned back, sending more torrents into the guardroom.

I just smiled and soaped up his arm, running my fingers along the slick surface of his skin, feeling the hard muscle flex and tense as I made soapy little finger designs along the flesh.

The soapies had known about this, almost certainly, but in those days they were somewhat more tolerant.

Marc Vilo, and behind them stood a pair of soapies in their sky blue jumpsuits and their silver-masked helmets.

They were all after him, all of them: Caine, Lamorak, Pallas, Dole and Vilo, and the damned soapies behind him.

All his jitters, all his bitter determination to destroy Caine, all the back-of-the-neck pressure of the soapies in the booth, all was forgotten.

Soapy and a knighthood, while his period as Minister of Technological Development had been rewarded by an early retirement and the Mastership of Porterhouse.

He had a dishpan full of soapy water, and he kept sloshing the water through the chimney.

Dripping with soapy water, he streamed and shined, a Sculpture rather than a man.