Etymology
Origin of sudsy
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Somewhere along the way, the biggest producer in television caught wind of Lasser’s chops and wanted her for his pet project, a parody of sudsy daytime dramas called “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Actor Raymond Cruz was held in custody for five hours on Monday after a sudsy spat with three women in his Los Angeles neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
Indebted to the glamour of Roxy Music, rhythm-heavy post-punk and sudsy symphonic pop, the album swoons with romance and heartbreak.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2022
For this type of surface, she recommends sudsy water or even just a damp microfiber cloth.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
Mia touched a knuckle to her brow, as if she’d forgotten the scar existed, and a drop of warm sudsy water ran down her temple.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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But in high-efficiency washers, in which laundry rotates in a drum and is sprayed with water and not continually submerged, more detergent means sudsier clothes.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 23, 2014
“I opened my eyes for a second, not believing that what I’d dreamed of was happening,” she writes, and it only gets sudsier from there.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2011
Instead, I've been glued to a true-life Web spin-off that's even sudsier than the real thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In perhaps the sudsiest scene, Lady Marjorie gives up her young man, the Roddy Llewellyn of 1906.
From Time Magazine Archive
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