sugar-coat

Example Sentences

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Wales captain Dewi Lake, one of four Welsh players sent to the sin-bin, made no attempt to sugar-coat his side's 12th straight Six Nations defeat.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

"We're now asking whether the same sugar-coat trick shows up in other hard-to-treat cancers, such as glioblastoma, and in non-cancer diseases where the immune system is misled," he said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2026

“I can’t really sugar-coat this in any way, so I am not going to try,” Earps said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

"The FBU leadership has been determined not to sugar-coat the offer," FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack said in a statement.

From Reuters • Mar. 6, 2023

For they, and what they never were, and what they never did, merely sugar-coat a dose disguised, and gild the solid pill of fact with tinselled fiction.

From The Hidden Children by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)