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Verb: sugarcoat
  1. Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
    - glaze, candy
     
  2. Cause to appear more pleasant or appealing
    "The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts"

Derived forms: sugarcoats, sugarcoated, sugarcoating

Type of: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, spin, sweeten

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