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Sugarcoat

//ˈʃʊɡɚˌkoʊt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To coat with sugar. transitive
  2. 2
    cause to appear more pleasant or appealing wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze wordnet

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).

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