Etymology
Origin of sudsy
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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
Her plan: Raise awareness with a sudsy streaming show that dramatizes the mayhem above, with uncommonly attractive actors portraying the real-life motley crew.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
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
Prepare to get sudsy at this family-friendly event, which features a pre-party with giant foam cannons spewing bubbles, followed by multicolored bubbles during the race and a “mini-music festival” after party with even more suds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
Cady had just dropped Toby’s cake plate in the sudsy sink when she heard the thud from the main storeroom floor.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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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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