sugarcoat

Example Sentences

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“But I don’t want to sugarcoat it. It is going to be very disruptive.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

"He's not well. I'm not going to sugarcoat this and say that he's doing really well, he's still really unwell," she told her followers.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

“No way to sugarcoat it: The S&P 500 is expensive,” BofA Securities wrote in a Dec. 31 research note.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

I don’t want to sugarcoat the challenge of finding a job in your 60s, but a change of pace might help you feel differently about still working.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 5, 2026

“Or something. I don’t know what you’d call it either, I guess. But it’s wrong. And you shouldn’t sugarcoat it just because your mom thinks you should.”

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman