English

Alternative forms

• sugar-coat

Verb

sugarcoat ‎(third-person singular simple present sugarcoats, present participle sugarcoating, simple past and past participle sugarcoated)

1. (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.

Translations

Synonyms

• gild
• whitewash

Derived terms

• sugar-coated, sugarcoated
• sugar-coating, sugarcoating