sugar-coat in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for sugar-coat in the French»English Dictionary

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dorer la pilule à qn inf

to sugarcoat the pill for sb Am

sugar-coat in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for sugar-coat in the English»French Dictionary

sugar-coat VB trans

sugar-coat

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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

He did not sugar-coat his reports.

en.wikipedia.org

It serves no one -- not the public, politicians or police officers themselves -- to sugar-coat the issue.

news.nationalpost.com

It's no good trying to sugar-coat the bitter pill.

www.smh.com.au

But if you only tell people nice stuff and sugar-coat everything, you won't have reflected their actual state.

www.newsandstar.co.uk

I appreciated the fact that they didn't sugar-coat that moment.

www.thestar.com

We sought reliable guides who wouldn't lie to us, infantilize us, or sugar-coat anything, however flabby and wild-eyed they might be.

www.newyorker.com

So you can't sugar-coat the fact that they are making very tough decisions.

ottawacitizen.com

There's no way to sugar-coat the gravity of their problem.

goodereader.com

Yet she refuses to sugar-coat what she saw.

www.theage.com.au

There's no way to sugar-coat it: many of our readers have harsh words for junior doctors.

www.telegraph.co.uk