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ˈsoapily, adv. [f. soapy a.] In a soft or easy manner; smoothly. Also in sense 4 of soapy a.
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xix, [The snake] continuing all the while..to glide soapily along. 1976A. E. Lindop in H. Watson Winter's Crimes 8 200 Soapily he would say, ‘Darling, don't worry.’ 1979Sci. Amer. Jan. 26/1 The breakdown of the insulator may have many causes from the death of the maintaining cells to the appearance of a detergentlike metabolite capable of soapily cleaning off the invaluable lipid layers. |