soapy

adj

1. Literal senses:

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

2. Literal senses:

   “Near-synonym: soaped up”

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

3. Literal senses:

   “His skin was still soapy after the shower.”

4. 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[.]”

5. (dated)Committing or involving flattery.

noun

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