Sugarcoat

Alternative forms

 * sugar-coat

Etymology

 * from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste

Verb

 * 1)  To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.
 * 2) * 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

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