Confectioner's jacket?

Usage examples of sugarcoat.

But it was less pleasant---even dangerous--to sugarcoat the facts to his superior.

They sugarcoat the word of God, make light of his warnings, tell their flocks that hell is merely a metaphor or an antique concept with no actual reality.

But should one sugarcoat the impossible: being snatched out of the sky?

He swallowed three of the sugarcoated pills, then really wanted that bottled water.

Since Jeremy wouldn't have sugarcoated my arrangement, Clay had obviously reinterpreted the facts through his own filter of logic, a logic as indecipherable as his code of behavior and ethics.