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cause to appear more pleasant or appealing
The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts - coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
How To Use sugarcoat In A Sentence
- I think the term duet kind of intimates established singers who've kind of ran out of ideas and they take songs and they get together and make them into some kind of sugarcoated moment. Krauss and Plant: Opposites Attract on a Sweet CD
- Tonight, Ms. France (who's become quite the gal-about-town since Glamour 's Bonnie Fuller was-there'snosugarcoatingit - askedto leave) co-hosts a party with New Age designer Donna Karan to "kick off" the "Miracle on Madison Avenue" charity shopping event, which is coming on Dec. 2. The Eight Day Week
- The film serves up a sugarcoated confection that will make anyone with a taste for Nabokov gag.
- Stewart's tempestuous drama does not sugarcoat the failings of her characters and Graham McLaren's pacey production pulls no punches. Men Should Weep; The Missing – review
- Dancing despite the Nazis, the tawdry chorines of ‘Cabaret’ provide a bracing alternative to ‘The Sound of Music's’ sugarcoated Trapps.
- Democratic Sen. LeRoy Stumpf of Plummer told his colleagues there was no way to "sugarcoat" the cuts, which amount to about $270 per pupil for the next two years. Kstp.com - MORE NEWS
- She could tell he was getting ready to sugarcoat what he said. TRUST ME
- GigaOm rebuked Sprint for attempting to "sugarcoat" the news by saying the company's commitment to quality would not change with the job cuts. Kansas City Star: Front Page
- Papelbon isn't backing down from his initial comments, telling the Boston Globe that he's not there to "sugarcoat" anything. Deadspin
- The illegal execution of a guiltless man, whose death sentence the governor of the state had already overturned, however, is truly tragic and nowise sugarcoated in the show.