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to talk about or describe (something) in a way that makes it seem more pleasant or acceptable than it is
textbooks that sugarcoat history She has very strong opinions, and she doesn't try to sugarcoat them.
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Recent Examples of sugarcoat
That sugarcoats the fact that CVN-80 had seen its delivery date shifted from September 2029 to July 2030.
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Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Woods' caddie, Williams, didn't sugarcoat it but came clean.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
But internally, no one is kidding themselves or trying to sugarcoat the results.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
In response, people had many thoughts — and did not sugarcoat their responses.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Woods' caddie, Williams, didn't sugarcoat it but came clean.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
But internally, no one is kidding themselves or trying to sugarcoat the results.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
In response, people had many thoughts — and did not sugarcoat their responses.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sugarcoat
Verb
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But this uncertainty does not excuse us from continuing to operate our businesses.—
PJ Bain,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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The judge also reasoned that Pryor’s failure to bring a claim in a timely manner can’t be excused by fraudulent concealment.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
19 July 2025
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Although the series obviously took place on Superman’s home planet, the Fortress still appeared, explained away by the revelation that it was first created as a secret science base by Zor-El, the Great Grandfather of Jor-El.—
Daryl Baxter,
Space.com,
11 July 2025
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Bergman himself went to great lengths not to excuse, ignore, or explain away his Nazi sympathies.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
11 July 2025
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That situation will have to be rationalized and given some streetside real estate.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
29 July 2025
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Without self-awareness, most of us could convince ourselves of anything, with plenty of excuses that rationalize our behaviors.—
Harry Kraemer,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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However, the Commission did not indicate any sudden or unexpected event that would justify the urgency.—
Jon McGowan,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Lay of the land Advocates for the Golden Dome point to recent events to justify the program.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
23 July 2025
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Police officials will explain how the new police drones can be remotely deployed and piloted toward the scene of an incident from docks placed across the city.—
Cameron Knight,
The Enquirer,
26 July 2025
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Then, the following paragraphs explain why this pairing works and provides some examples of some popular brands of rosé wine in the category.—
Liz Thach,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Finch, who has lived in the neighborhood for 20 years, first as a renter and later as the owner of a unit in a brownstone, sought to bring out the industrial history buried under all that bland, whitewashed drywall.—
Wendy Goodman,
Curbed,
1 July 2025
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Notably, there has been no effort to whitewash the native Hawaiian characters either through their visual or spoken characteristics (Carrere and Jason Scott Lee, who plays Nani’s surfer friend David, actually hail from the Aloha State).—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2025
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