Sugarcoat
/ˈʃʊɡɚˌkoʊt/ verb
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To coat with sugar. transitive
- 2 cause to appear more pleasant or appealing wordnet
- 3 To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to. figuratively, transitive
"There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster."
- 4 coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze wordnet
Example
More examples"She doesn't sugarcoat anything."
Etymology
From sugar + coat; figurative sense from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste (sugarcoating the pill).