Synonyms for Soft-soap:

• n.

  •butter up (noun)
  • butter.
  •flattery (noun)
  • servility,
  • Puffery,
  • jive,
  • gratification,
  • adulation,
  • snow job,
  • laud,
  • soft words,
  • tribute,
  • encomium,
  • bootlicking,
  • sweet talk,
  • Cajoleries,
  • ingratiations,
  • unctuousness,
  • sycophancies,
  • mush,
  • fawning,
  • ingratiation,
  • smoke,
  • Toadyism,
  • incense,
  • obsequiousness,
  • blandishment,
  • flattering,
  • flummery,
  • truckling,
  • commendation,
  • sycophancy,
  • eyewash,
  • cajolery,
  • approbation,
  • honeyed words,
  • applause,
  • eyewashes,
  • jives,
  • pretty speech,
  • fulsomeness,
  • eulogy,
  • plaudits,
  • gallantry,
  • hokum.
  •soft-soap (noun)
  • green soap.
  •soft soap (noun)
  • semifluid soap,
  • fluid soap.

• v.

  •abase, demean oneself (verb)
  • grovel.
  •cajole (verb)
  • work on,
  • get around,
  • push,
  • delude,
  • banter,
  • soap,
  • beguile,
  • build up,
  • snow,
  • entice,
  • play up to,
  • hand a line,
  • rub the right way,
  • work over,
  • make up to,
  • butter up,
  • crowd,
  • deceive,
  • spread it on,
  • stroke,
  • get next to,
  • lay it on thick,
  • influence,
  • maneuver,
  • tempt,
  • dupe,
  • brownnose,
  • decoy,
  • jolly,
  • lure,
  • soften,
  • con,
  • mislead,
  • oil,
  • bootlick,
  • sweeten up,
  • suck up to,
  • urge,
  • massage,
  • tantalize,
  • apple polish,
  • induce,
  • entrap,
  • seduce,
  • argue into.
  •coax (verb)
  • talk into,
  • pester,
  • barter,
  • plague,
  • get,
  • tease,
  • arm-twist,
  • jawbone,
  • wangle,
  • press,
  • worm,
  • rope in,
  • allure,
  • prevail upon,
  • Importune,
  • soothe,
  • come on,
  • hook.
  •communication (verb)
  • soft-soap.
  •flatter (verb)
  • toady,
  • overpraise,
  • cater to,
  • salve,
  • praise,
  • Beslaver,
  • sell,
  • humor,
  • adulate,
  • fawn,
  • glorify,
  • court,
  • charm.
  •grovel (verb)
  • yes,
  • beg for mercy,
  • crawl,
  • implore,
  • kiss one's feet,
  • eat crow,
  • pamper,
  • creep,
  • eat humble pie,
  • fall all over,
  • prostrate,
  • apple-polish,
  • stoop,
  • revere,
  • kneel,
  • truckle,
  • eat dirt,
  • crouch,
  • kowtow,
  • make much of,
  • beg,
  • bow and scrape,
  • beseech,
  • brown-nose,
  • humble oneself,
  • cower,
  • cringe,
  • snivel.
  •induce (verb)
  • procure,
  • motivate,
  • engender,
  • steamroll,
  • bring about,
  • incite,
  • goose,
  • bring around,
  • lead to,
  • breed,
  • occasion,
  • sell one on,
  • sway,
  • impel,
  • instigate,
  • give rise to,
  • activate,
  • squeeze,
  • convince,
  • actuate,
  • abet,
  • move,
  • effect,
  • win over,
  • produce,
  • make,
  • persuade,
  • set in motion,
  • get up,
  • promote,
  • suck in,
  • cause,
  • prompt,
  • draw in,
  • draw,
  • bulldoze,
  • generate,
  • twist one's arm.
  •lie (verb)
  • palter,
  • falsify,
  • put up a front,
  • equivocate,
  • misrepresent,
  • break promise,
  • bs,
  • Misspeak,
  • distort,
  • victimize,
  • prevaricate,
  • dissimulate,
  • put on,
  • bull,
  • misguide,
  • malign,
  • fake,
  • forswear,
  • perjure,
  • invent,
  • be untruthful,
  • bear false witness,
  • go back on,
  • phony,
  • exaggerate,
  • misinform,
  • plant,
  • fabricate,
  • make believe,
  • overdraw,
  • fib,
  • frame,
  • Misinstruct,
  • fudge,
  • concoct,
  • string along,
  • misstate,
  • dissemble,
  • pervert.
  •lobby (verb)
  • solicit,
  • solicit votes,
  • modify,
  • pressure,
  • change,
  • drum,
  • pull strings,
  • boost,
  • further,
  • thump,
  • make a pitch for,
  • splash,
  • hard sell,
  • pitch,
  • high pressure,
  • advance,
  • campaign for,
  • request,
  • spot,
  • plug,
  • exert influence,
  • bring pressure to bear,
  • sell on,
  • alter,
  • put pressure on,
  • politick,
  • soft-sell,
  • billboard,
  • hype,
  • bill,
  • affect.
  •tell an untruth (verb)
  • lie.
  •wheedle (verb)
  • lay it on,
  • finagle.

• Other synonyms:

  •coax
  • jawboned,
  • Worming,
  • Wormed,
  • roped in,
  • Blarneying,
  • Blarneyed,
  • arm-twisting,
  • jawboning,
  • WORMS,
  • jawbones.
  •flatter
  • caters to,
  • catered to,
  • humoring,
  • Humored,
  • Overpraising,
  • overpraised,
  • catering to,
  • overpraises.
  •grovel
  • groveling,
  • grovelling,
  • yeses,
  • falls over,
  • fall over,
  • brown-nosing,
  • eating humble pie,
  • kiss feet,
  • making much of.
  •sweet-talk
  • Honeying,
  • honied.
  •wheedle
  • lay on,
  • laying on,
  • laid on.
  •Other relevant words:
  • slaver,
  • horseshit,
  • pander to,
  • nag,
  • romance,
  • plead,
  • lobby,
  • prevail on,
  • hedge,
  • honey,
  • snuffle,
  • mouth,
  • taffy,
  • compliment,
  • coaxing,
  • puff,
  • Belaud,
  • shit,
  • recommend,
  • flannel,
  • cant,
  • bullshit,
  • blackmail,
  • soften up,
  • attract.

Antonyms for Soft-soap:

• n.

  • flattery
    blame, condemnation, offense, belittlement, castigation, criticism, denunciation.

• v.

  • cajole
    discourage, disenchant, disgust, repulse, bully, dissuade, repel, turn off, force.
  • coax
    please, allow, not care.
  • flatter
    castigate, condemn, criticize, mismatch, belittle, denounce, insult, offend, ignore.
  • grovel
    boast, answer, straighten.
  • induce
    stay, impede, kill, lose, leave alone, stop, prevent, hinder, delay, fail, halt, deter, destroy.
  • lie
    stand, be upright, be honest, tell truth.
  • lobby
    continue, keep, repress, suppress, decrease, pull, remain.
  • sweet-talk
    irritate.

Hyponym for Soft-soap:

• v.

  • communication
    blarney, cajole, coax, wheedle, blandish, flatter, palaver, sweet-talk, inveigle.