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
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Contemporary Examples of sugar-coat
Well, there's no way to sugar-coat 80,000 jobs, so I won't even try.
I think they had a lot of trust for me because I never tried to sugar-coat it.
Historical Examples of sugar-coat
He really understood how to sugar-coat poison as well as any man of his stamp could.
Ester Ried Yet SpeakingIsabella Alden
You understand very well, too, how to sugar-coat the most bitter pills.
Letters to an UnknownProsper Mrime
They sugar-coat unpleasant truths, and are natural diplomats.
How to Read Human NatureWilliam Walker Atkinson
He did not sugar-coat enough the bitter truth which he was telling to the nation.
William Lloyd GarrisonArchibald H. Grimke
It prompts us to sugar-coat the sins which our forefathers swallowed in the rough; that is all.
Phases of an Inferior PlanetEllen Glasgow
sugar-coat
verb (tr)
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