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Synonyms for sugar-coat

  • verb

Most common

spin candy-coat sugar the pill gild the pill sugar

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Sugar the pill — to make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to

sugar the pill, spin, gild the pill, candy-coat, gild

2. Sugar

sugar, candy, glaze

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    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.

  2. v. 2

    To coat with sugar.

Related words

Word family
sugar-coated
Other spellings
sugar coat sugarcoat

Forms

Past participle
sugar-coated
e.g. sugar-coated → spint, candy-coated, gilt, sugared…

Example sentences

  • spin After dinner, we took a spin around town in my car.
  • sugar In 1984, Coke started using HFCS instead of sugar.

By length

4 letters
spin1, gild1
5 letters
sugar2, candy2, glaze1

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sugar2 = 2 syllables).