English
Alternative spellings
sugar-coat

Etymology
sugar + coat; from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste

Verb
en-verb

#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.

Synonyms
gild
whitewash

Derived terms
sugar-coated, sugarcoated
sugar-coating, sugarcoating<!--noun-->

zh:sugarcoat

• 2007-04-11 20:05 - Paul G - fms & vars; infl; der

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