Sugarcoat

Alternative forms

• sugar-coat

Origin

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

Full definition of sugarcoat

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• gild
• whitewash

Derived terms

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