as in to excuse
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
There is no sugarcoating the reality.
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Justice Delos Santos,
Mercury News,
31 May 2026
Then, sugarcoating was the reflexive response.
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Susan Page,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
There’s no way to sugarcoat it.
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Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
25 May 2026
Morgan didn’t sugarcoat the harder parts either.
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Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
10 May 2026
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Justice Delos Santos,
Mercury News,
31 May 2026
Then, sugarcoating was the reflexive response.
—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
There’s no way to sugarcoat it.
—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
25 May 2026
Morgan didn’t sugarcoat the harder parts either.
—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
10 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for sugarcoat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sugarcoat
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Faith, hope drive Venezuelan community's response The day the earthquakes struck was a holiday in Venezuela, which may explain why many families were at home when the disaster occurred, while some children were visiting friends or relatives.
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Maybe that explains her chaotic behavior when the crew goes out later that night.
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Wall Street is increasingly punishing Big Tech companies for spending on AI without profits to justify it.
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Thus far, Meta was only monetizing AI through its advertising, which is a great business but can be cyclical and was not enough to justify using all its cash flow.
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Demings uses the go-to excuse that state legislation bans using the TDT on local projects.
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She’s been canceled, kidnapped, and bamboozled, happy to tell anyone who’ll listen, and who’ll excuse her typos.
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And as much as people wanna whitewash it, that’s part of the history too.
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Burns, who is Black, also pushed back on criticisms that the state’s new Black history curriculum whitewashes the history of slavery and oppression in America.
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His larger diagnosis is that the division machine has made every disagreement existential — and that once a political difference becomes sacred, people will rationalize almost anything to defeat the other side.
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These activists have rationalized Hamas’ terrorist attacks and embraced outright antisemitism.
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These subtle shifts are easy to explain away and even easier to ignore.
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However, in the months after giving birth to her daughter, Cust began noticing symptoms that felt unusual, but easy to explain away as postpartum exhaustion.
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“Sugarcoat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sugarcoat. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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