sugar-coat

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verb add sugar

verb. add sugar

also sugar-coat, 1870, originally of medicine; figuratively, "make more palatable," from 1910. Related: Sugarcoated; sugarcoating.

He really understood how to sugar-coat poison as well as any man of his stamp could.

You understand very well, too, how to sugar-coat the most bitter pills.

They sugar-coat unpleasant truths, and are natural diplomats.

He did not sugar-coat enough the bitter truth which he was telling to the nation.

It prompts us to sugar-coat the sins which our forefathers swallowed in the rough; that is all.

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.