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sugar-coat

sugar-coat verb [ with obj. ] 1 coat (an item of food ) with sugar: (as adj. sugar-coated ) : sugar-coated almonds. 2 make superficially attractive or acceptable: you won't see him sugar-coat the truth. make excessively sentimental: the film-makers' proficiency is overpowered by their tendency to sugar-coat the material.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sugar-coated

s gar-c at ed /-ɪd /形容詞 通例 名詞 の前で 〗1 砂糖で包んだ, 糖衣状の .2 ⦅非難して ⦆うわべだけ繕った .