sugarcoating

[shoog-er-koh-ting]

noun

1. the act or process of covering something with sugar.

2. a coating coating or layer of sugar or a sugary substance.

3. a thing used to make something else considered unpleasant or disagreeable seem attractive or palatable.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sugarcoating¹

First recorded in 1905–10; sugar + coat + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

“It will certainly be a big winner on Disney+. But there’s no sugarcoating the fact that this was an incredibly low opening weekend for a Pixar movie.”

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I asked DeSantis’ office if he wasn’t sugarcoating the employment demand for young workers by referring to resorts rather than construction.

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Politicians who try to reassure voters and investors about a market downturn often sound as though they’re sugarcoating the downside of their own policies, but that doesn’t always mean they’re wrong.

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There’s no sugarcoating that this naturalistic drama features a graphic sequence of harrowing violence that may prove too difficult for some audiences to stomach.

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For Haney, who studied urban development at UC Berkeley before getting a law degree, there is no “sugarcoating” this reality, nor its urgency.

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