sugarcoated
Example Sentences
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I take issue with the continued use of the sugarcoated term “porch pirates.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
Rice’s unambiguous ouster was somewhat rattling for the media business, where high-profile exits are often sugarcoated as voluntary resignations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
The appeal is subverting the sugarcoated things they were told as children.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
Also, picture book biographies are prone to feel more like hagiographies, where events or personality traits that might be awkward or boring to explain to a child reader are sugarcoated or altogether omitted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
In the room next to mine, Charlie mumbled something about sugarcoated chess pieces.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
