sugar-coat
Britishverb
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to coat or cover with sugar
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to cause to appear more attractive; make agreeable
Example Sentences
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Wales captain Dewi Lake, one of four Welsh players sent to the sin-bin, made no attempt to sugar-coat his side's 12th straight Six Nations defeat.
From Barron's
"We're now asking whether the same sugar-coat trick shows up in other hard-to-treat cancers, such as glioblastoma, and in non-cancer diseases where the immune system is misled," he said.
From Science Daily
Both said winter fuel cuts had been a mistake but Phillipson said the party should focus on "the 90% of things it got right" - including family hubs and workers' rights -while Powell said that it wasn't possible to "sugar-coat" big errors, adding that voter disillusionment needed to be addressed.
From BBC
If you expect me to sit there and try and sugar-coat things which fans can see, I don't think I should be doing it.
From BBC
"I don't want to sugar-coat this, people have been through it," said Nandy.
From BBC
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