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,
  • coaxing.
  •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.
  •press for political action (verb)
  • lobby.
  •sweet-talk (verb)
  • slaver,
  • honey.
  •tell an untruth (verb)
  • lie.
  •wheedle (verb)
  • lay it on,
  • finagle,
  • soften up.

• 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.

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.