soapy

Literal senses:

Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them.

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Near-synonym: soaped up

The dishwasher uses hot soapy water to clean the dishes and silverware.

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His skin was still soapy after the shower.

Resembling a soap opera.

The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.

This Diana-obsessed series is the very definition of bad writing. Despite the brilliant cast, it’s a crass, soapy dive into the abyss – not least in the atrocious scenes featuring Ghost Diana[.]

Committing or involving flattery.

An erotic massage that involves lots of soap and body contact.