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candy-coating

candy-coating is the present participle and gerund of candy-coat.

Meaning of candy-coat

Verb

candy-coat (third-person singular simple present candy-coats, present participle candy-coating, simple past and past participle candy-coated)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To sugarcoat.

Questions about candy-coating

What is candy-coating the present participle and gerund of?
Candy-coating is the present participle and gerund of candy-coat.

Words near candy-coating in the dictionary

  1. candy-ass
  2. candy-assed
  3. candy-asses
  4. candy-coat
  5. candy-coated
  6. candy-coating
  7. candy-coats
  8. candy-coloured
  9. candy-gram
  10. candy-grams
  11. candy-man

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Adapted from Wiktionary: candy-coating (page history and authors); candy-coat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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