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sugar-coat

sugar-coat is the alternative spelling of sugarcoat.

Meaning of sugarcoat

Verb

sugarcoat (third-person singular simple present sugarcoats, present participle sugarcoating, simple past and past participle sugarcoated)

  1. (transitive) To coat with sugar.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) 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.

Forms of sugar-coat

third-person singular presentsugar-coats
present participlesugar-coating
past participlesugar-coated
pastsugar-coated

Questions about sugar-coat

What is sugar-coat the alternative spelling of?
Sugar-coat is the alternative spelling of sugarcoat.

Words near sugar-coat in the dictionary

  1. sugar-butter sauce
  2. sugar-butter sauces
  3. sugar-candian
  4. sugar-cane
  5. sugar-canes
  6. sugar-coat
  7. sugar-coated
  8. sugar-coated liver
  9. sugar-coated spleen
  10. sugar-coating
  11. sugar-coats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugar-coat (page history and authors); sugarcoat (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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