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sugarcoats

sugarcoats is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 sugarcoats

Questions about sugarcoats

What is sugarcoats the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sugarcoats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sugarcoat.

Words near sugarcoats in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sugarcoats (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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