blandish vs soft-soap

blandish and soft-soap both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
blandish	No	No	Yes	No
soft-soap	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, soft-soap is a hyponym of blandish; that is, soft-soap is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than blandish:

Other hyponyms of blandish include adulate, stroke, bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle, brown-nose, butter up.

blandish (verb)	soft-soap (verb)
praise somewhat dishonestly	use flattering talk on somebody
	persuade someone through flattery