Synonyms for sugarcoat
ˈʃʊg ərˌkoʊtsug·ar·coat

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1. sugarcoatverb

   Synonyms:
   whitewash, gild

2. sugarcoatverb

   To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.

   Synonyms:
   gild, whitewash

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1. sugarcoat, glaze, candyverb

   coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

   Synonyms:
   glass over, glaze over, glaze, candy, glass

2. sugarcoatverb

   cause to appear more pleasant or appealing

   "The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts"

   Synonyms:
   glaze, candy

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1. Paul Ryan:

   I will not sugarcoat this, this is a disappointing day for us. Doing big things is hard. All of us. All of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better, we were a 10-year opposition party, where being against things was easy to do. You just had to be against it.

2. Ken Kimmell:

   There is no way to sugarcoat this, President Trump has taken a wrecking ball to environmental protection in the US, frankly I didn't think this would happen with the severity with this is happening. We have had changes in powers before. Different presidents strike a different balance. But this is a severe attack that we didn't expect.

3. Jane Harman:

   Our bottom line is we are unflinching about this man, we don't sugarcoat or whitewash anything. We consider ourselves not just nonpartisan, but straight-up.

4. Solis Doyle:

   Look this was bad. I ca n’t sugarcoat it, she was wrong and clearly it’s not helpful to Democrats going into the midterms and certainly not going into 2020.

5. Gavin Schmidt:

   It’s clear that people are taking this more seriously than they were a decade ago, but let’s not sugarcoat how big a challenge this is. It’s not a challenge for a week or a year or a decade. It’s going to be the challenge of the century.