Example Sentences

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It is not assault, but his fatherhood assumes a retrospective moral irony, a soapily tragic tainting.

From The Guardian • May 12, 2017

As we drove off, Powers stood grinning soapily; Octon had turned on his heel again and slouched slowly back, to his own house.

From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony