Definitions
cause to appear more pleasant or appealing
Word origin
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).
Used in a sentence
“There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.”
“I went to the unheard-of trouble of re-writing the letter and saying the same harsh things softly, so as to sugarcoat the anguish and make it a little more endurable […]”
“The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all / And I don't gotta be false or sugarcoat it at all”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Make sound nicer”9 letters
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