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Meanings of sugarcoat in English

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze.

Synonyms
Examples for "candy"
Examples for "candy"
1
One bag contains candy; one contains flour; another peanuts; another water, etc.
School, Church, and Home Games
2
Look what I've got here: food, drink, candy, guns, bullets-and power, Roland.
Swan Song
3
Perhaps in time he will recover; he isn't made of sugar candy.
Hemlock Grove
4
Surprise your partner with their favorite gourmet food or guilty pleasure candy.
Ebony
5
The storekeeper weighed out the candy and dumped it in a bag.
The Secret Wireless; Or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol
1
Comments Here's a really useful, great tasting glaze for salmon or poultry.
Radio NZ
2
With this sea green glaze, they even take on a briny flavor.
The food matters cookbook: 500 revolutionary recipes for better ...
3
The formula for the frit and glaze is also a secret one.
The Story of Porcelain
4
I am sure you never saw finer workmanship or a richer glaze.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
5
Baste bird with glaze and cover again with wax paper; complete cooking.
The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
Usage of sugarcoat in English
1
Strong relationships notwithstanding, she won't sugarcoat the challenges of working in Nigeria.
Ebony
2
I'd like to be able to sugarcoat that news for my kids.
Wired
3
And he's not going to sugarcoat any of that to get elected.
The Guardian
4
This movie is all about humanity and it didn't sugarcoat his life.
Ebony
5
As much as Becka tried to sugarcoat it, Tree Tops sounded horrible.
Perfect
6
We didn't need anyone to sugarcoat it -we wanted the real thing.
The Guardian
7
Brother Candle suggested, Whatever you do, be clear and don't sugarcoat.
Surrender to the will of the night
8
Nobilo does not sugarcoat the possibility that it may never happen.
Reuters
9
The only thing he could do was to sugarcoat the truth.
The Big-Town Round-Up
10
It felt good. Kentucky coach Mark Stoops did not sugarcoat his team's effort.
Reuters
11
We don't sugarcoat things. Keely reached out and covered his hand with hers.
The mighty quinns: liam
12
He didn't sugarcoat what he was, even though other people did.
Consent to kill: a thriller
13
At least Brendan Rodgers did not try to sugarcoat it.
The Guardian
14
I don't sugarcoat anything and I wouldn't want someone to sugarcoat something with me.
Ebony
15
Matt refused to pull any punches or sugarcoat the truth.
Once bitten, twice dead
16
Doctors don't usually sugarcoat the truth, but he offered my mom his nonclinical opinion.
My Fight/Your Fight
About this term
Sugarcoat through the time
Sugarcoat across language varieties
United States of America
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