sugarcoats

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sugarcoats verb

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.”

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gild gild the pill whitewash candy glaze sentimentalizes condescends dissembles moralizing belabors intuits hyperbolize digresses overdetermined leavens sentimentalise elides confesses

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