sugarcoating

present participle of sugarcoat

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of sugarcoating There was no sugarcoating their first loss in four games to start the season. Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025 That has to improve, and there is no sugarcoating it. Chad Graff, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025 What Compassionate Leadership Looks Like Compassionate leadership doesn’t mean avoiding hard decisions or sugarcoating the truth. Kiran Mann, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Nunemaker said the search committee tried to give Sajet a realistic picture of the museum, the board and Milwaukee as a place to live without sugarcoating or underselling anything. Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Special team woes continue There’s no sugarcoating it, the Horned Frogs have issues on special teams after another rough day by the unit. Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Aug. 2025 In lieu of sugarcoating the possibility of being made whole again and/or overstating the extent to which a mutual understanding might allow these characters to identify their common enemy, the film cannonballs into the grim absurdity of a world that’s lost control of itself. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sugarcoating
Verb
  • In explaining the plea agreement, Acosta claimed the case against Epstein was plagued with issues that may hinder a conviction.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The vendor had already begun explaining her offerings to me in a mix of Spanish and English, but the AirPods drowned out most of her words.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Another important factor is whether a court is convinced that an employee’s speech about Kirk was serious enough to disrupt a college’s operations, thus justifying the employee’s firing.
    Jeffrey C. Sun, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The survey also found that 30% of finance leaders in the early stages of AI adoption struggle with justifying ROI, compared with 21% of those further along the AI journey, or AI leaders.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Celebrating or excusing violence is abhorrent.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Procedures for excusing or deferring jury duty differs by county, according to the state’s judicial website.
    Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Film workers for Palestine target those complicit, film companies and institutions, that are whitewashing or justifying Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its apartheid regime.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The pledge and the accompanying FAQs clearly state that the targets are complicit Israeli film institutions and companies, given their pervasive involvement in whitewashing or justifying Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its apartheid regime against all Palestinians.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Sugarcoating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sugarcoating. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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