sugarcoat
See also: sugar-coat
English
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Etymology
sugar + coat; from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈʃʊɡɚˌkoʊt/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈʃʊɡəˌkəʊt/
- Hyphenation: sug‧ar‧coat
Verb
sugarcoat (third-person singular simple present sugarcoats, present participle sugarcoating, simple past and past participle sugarcoated)
- (transitive) To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.
- There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.
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give a falsely pleasant appearance
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