sugarcoat

Verb

coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
cause to appear more pleasant or appealing
- "The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts"
To coat with sugar.
To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.

Examples

"There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster."

Origin / Etymology

From sugar + coat; figurative sense from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste (sugarcoating the pill).

Synonyms

candy, candy-coat, gild, gild the pill, glaze, sugarcoat the pill

Scrabble Score: 12

sugarcoat is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
sugarcoat is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sugarcoat is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

sugarcoat is a valid Words With Friends word