sugarcoat

[shoo g-er-koht]

verb (used with object)

to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
to make (something difficult or distasteful) appear more pleasant or acceptable: There was no way to sugarcoat the bad news.

Origin of sugarcoat

First recorded in 1865–70; sugar + coat

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Her advice, sugarcoated in goofy catchphrases, is delivered in the unimpeachable rhetoric of common sense.
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Adam Auriemma
November 10, 2013

We have to write popular plays and pretty poems and sugarcoated stories.
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Bernard G. Richards
But whether I practice Yoga, Dianetics, or write the lines on a sugarcoated pill and swallow it is my trade secret.
The Fourth R
George Oliver Smith

also sugar-coat, 1870, originally of medicine; figuratively, "make more palatable," from 1910. Related: Sugarcoated; sugarcoating.