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sugar-coated

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for sugar-coated.

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If you had to eat nothing but candy, you'd hate the sugar-coated morass your mouth had become.

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Quick take

Alternative form of sugarcoated. [(literally) Coated with sugar.]

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Alternative form of sugarcoated. [(literally) Coated with sugar.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sugar-coated.

adjective

Alternative form of sugarcoated. [(literally) Coated with sugar.]

Example sentences

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If you had to eat nothing but candy, you'd hate the sugar-coated morass your mouth had become.

2

At least one of those forces is marketing, which has incentive to offer parapharsed, sugar-coated snippets of what something is.

3

I much prefer this over some sugar-coated version where we just kind of pretend it didn't happen.

4

I think this is a good attitude in a general sense, but I don't think failure needs to be sugar-coated.

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He thinks the movie does a disservice to kids by presenting what is, in his opinion, a distorted and sugar-coated representation of mental life and motivations.

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This is a sugar-coated version of errors as return values.

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I could have sugar-coated that, but some things need to be said outright.

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Now I wonder if a sugar-coated Lovecraftian horror story was the author's intent.

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> This is a sugar-coated version of errors as return values.

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The ECB has effectively acted as a lender of last resort to Greece for a looong time (just look at ELA [1] for example), although for political reasons this fact has been sugar-coated so as not to scare the electorate in states that pay for Greece (and are now beginning to see what has been clear to anyone who looked at the figures, namely that the money is gone!).

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International readers would get the real picture of India if they skim through local hindi newspapers (especially states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar) using Google translator everyday to know about the real India and the real hindu caste system, instead of relying on sugar-coated and watered-down reality and wonderland being churned by cunning authors or Bollywood.

Quote examples

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Actual nutritious breakfast pictured surrounding nutritionally vapid sugar-coated ground corn husk "cereal" thats probably not even properly considered a food.

2

To not insult and to not swear is not to speak in “sugar-coated phrases“.

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I didn't mean the sugar-coated American oh my god how can I say this without being direct version of "we're making Elixir a Ruby-on-Erlang and this has to stop".

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There is no intended negative load, although, in retrospect, using "sugar-coated" as "coated in syntactic sugar" may have introduced an unintended negative meaning.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use sugar-coated in a sentence?

If you had to eat nothing but candy, you'd hate the sugar-coated morass your mouth had become.

What does sugar-coated mean?

Alternative form of sugarcoated. [(literally) Coated with sugar.]

What part of speech is sugar-coated?

sugar-coated is commonly used as adjective.