In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
No one was being fooled orsoft-soapedabout what was being proposed.
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It seems to me that others believe that, once the election is over arid the people have beensoft-soaped into voting for them again, they can do something different.
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