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sugar-coat
verb as in sweeten
Strongest match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Well, there's no way to sugar-coat 80,000 jobs, so I won't even try.
I think they had a lot of trust for me because I never tried to sugar-coat it.
Learning had put on, as it were, a sugar coat for pleasant swallowing.
Lester realized that this was an asinine attempt to sugar-coat the true story and it made him angry.
(b) The Story with a Moral attempts to sugar-coat its sermon with a little narrative.
"It isn't necessary to sugar coat the pill, parson," smiled Frank.
You understand very well, too, how to sugar-coat the most bitter pills.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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