soft-shoe

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Alternative spelling of soft shoe
tap dancing wearing soft-soled shoes
Casual, low-key, easy-going

Occasionally criticized for his soft-shoe approach (e.g., he urged the President to avoid a public squabble with Joe McCarthy), Persons nonetheless won many a legislator over to the Administration side.

Of or pertaining to this kind of dancing
A speech, explanation, sales pitch, or other set of remarks delivered in a restrained or conciliatory manner in order to persuade, distract, or otherwise influence someone

Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning?.

To perform a dance of this kind
A kind of tap dancing performed in soft-soled shoes, popular in vaudeville

Between Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Newley there's a delightful exhibition of the dances and their origin dating gack a few hundred years, from the clog to the buck, the wing, and the buck and wing, and on to the old soft shoe and more.

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Alternative spelling of soft shoe
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