Adjective: soothy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | soothier |
| Superlative | soothiest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more soothy |
| Superlative | most soothy |
Sample Sentences
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Whenever and whatever you may be up to or at, the right kind of background music and the soothier class of song will get you doing it more happily, more frequently, better perhaps or at greater expense. [1970, Punch, volume 259, page 27:]
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I saw him once pulling whistlepig spines out of a stray redbone hound, keeping him calm with a soothy voice and holding him off from snapping while the spears came out. You could see he valued what he could do with his hands. [2006, R. T. Smith, Uke Rivers Delivers, page 117:]
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What a soothy sound to my ears. For a moment those words almost erased the dislocation of my tumble. [2009, Alan Robbins, Following the Trail of Blood:]
Adjectives inflected like soothy
snubby,
snithy,
snorty,
snoopy,
sainty,
screwy,
scowly,
schizy,
smacky,
slimsy,
slanty,
slaggy,
songly,
soothy,
shysty,
shiply,
skeezy,
beastly,
yearny,
whip-creamy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From soothe + -y.