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sugarcoating

sugarcoating is the present participle and gerund 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.

Phrases with sugarcoating

Questions about sugarcoating

What is sugarcoating the present participle and gerund of?
Sugarcoating is the present participle and gerund of sugarcoat.

Words near sugarcoating in the dictionary

  1. sugarcoat a bitter pill
  2. sugarcoat the pill
  3. sugarcoated
  4. sugarcoated a bitter pill
  5. sugarcoated the pill
  6. sugarcoating
  7. sugarcoating a bitter pill
  8. sugarcoating the pill
  9. sugarcoats
  10. sugarcoats a bitter pill
  11. sugarcoats the pill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugarcoating (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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