sugar-coat

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Definition of sugar-coat in English English dictionary

sugar coat the pill
(deyim) Make something bad seem less unpleasant

Plans to improve public services are a way of sugar coating the pill of increased taxation.

sugarcoat
To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to
sugarcoat
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
sugarcoat
cause to appear more pleasant or appealing; "The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts"
sugarcoat
{f} coat with sugar; make something seem more appealing
sugar-coat
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