Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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vb. (alternative spelling of sugarcoat English)
Usage examples of "sugar-coat".
He Who Walks like Cougar at Night called people over to hear the funny name, and after they all had a good laugh, they loaded the network truck with frozen dinners and shrimp bottled in their own cocktail sauce and Captain Crunch sugar-coated cereal, and seven cases of Twinkies.
The music is sprinkled with rat poison, with the rattlesnake's venom, with the fetid breath of the gardenia, the spittle of the sacred yak, the bolloxed sweat of the musk-rat, the leper's sugar-coated nostalgia.
She ate as she walked: nuts and sugar-coated puffed wheat, an adequate trail snack.
Poisons weren't sugar-coated, brutality wasn't masked by silk and lace.
She says there were meetings, and he was there, but they were planning seditious stuff--that’s why she sugar-coated the damn thing.
I had no idea which of these slogans were sincere, and which were conscious theatrics-where the telegenic sugar-coating I'd asked for ended, and Mosala's real passions began-but then, she may not have been entirely clear about the borders, herself.