sugarcoat definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn: sugarcoat, glaze, candy]
2: cause to appear more pleasant or appealing; "The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts"

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: back-formation from sugarcoated Date: 1858 1. to coat with sugar 2. to make superficially attractive or palatable <tried to sugarcoat an unpleasant truth>