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/ʃˈʊɡəkˌəʊt/
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VERB
-
cause to appear more pleasant or appealing
The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts - coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
How To Use sugarcoat In A Sentence
- All this makes him an apposite starting point for those on the far right in search of intellectual sugarcoating.
- Be honest and truthful with your employees at all times; don't sugarcoat the truth in an attempt to soften the blow of difficult news.
- Unwilling to "sugarcoat" bitter disappointment, he was also mindful that there is more to his team than meets the eye, the ear or the stat sheet. Fore, right!
- Here, everyone is out for himself, the weak are at the mercy of the powerful, and the vast overwhelming majority is mired in a slave morality in which they accept the sugarcoated homilies of the powers to be.
- Harvey said while normal history classes touches on racism, this program doesn't "sugarcoat" anything. Undefined
- It's been whitewashed and dressed up and sugarcoated for so long that now it's just a tacky piece of junk on a souvenir stand, painted in red, white, and blue.
- Yes, yes, family isn't a great place to seek out feedback, but he's well-read and at his word to not "sugarcoat" his critique. Here Comes The Crunch
- The memo about pressure from Staudt to "sugarcoat" Bush's evaluations is dated Aug. 18, 1973. Slime Time Live
- Marziano said he didn't want to "sugarcoat" the multimillion-dollar expense. Undefined
- More strident liberal critics accuse Taranto of using humor to sugarcoat an otherwise malodorous agenda.