Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Coated with sugar: as, a sugar-coated pill; hence, made palatable, in any sense.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sugar-coat.
  • adjective Alternative spelling of sugarcoated.

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  • adjective encrusted with sugar or syrup

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Examples

  • The numbers belie the claims being made on Capitol Hill that Democrats were dragged into signing off on what one lawmaker described as a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich," with the creditworthiness of the United States on the line.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • At this point, things like Seth Godin's sugar-coated corporate speak emerge.

    the target audience 2009

  • While Chartwells promises super-nutritious meals of cereal, fruit, milk and eggs, if their current lunch offerings are any indication of what's to come, kids will likely be eating sugar-coated, carbon-dated cereals and fruit cups, high fat-hormone riddled chocolate milk, and processed egg McMuffins.

    Jacqueline Edelberg: Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy Jacqueline Edelberg 2011

  • While Chartwells promises super-nutritious meals of cereal, fruit, milk and eggs, if their current lunch offerings are any indication of what's to come, kids will likely be eating sugar-coated, carbon-dated cereals and fruit cups, high fat-hormone riddled chocolate milk, and processed egg McMuffins.

    Jacqueline Edelberg: Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy Jacqueline Edelberg 2011

  • While Chartwells promises super-nutritious meals of cereal, fruit, milk and eggs, if their current lunch offerings are any indication of what's to come, kids will likely be eating sugar-coated, carbon-dated cereals and fruit cups, high fat-hormone riddled chocolate milk, and processed egg McMuffins.

    Jacqueline Edelberg: Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy Jacqueline Edelberg 2011

  • At this point, things like Seth Godin's sugar-coated corporate speak emerge.

    the target audience 2009

  • So far Mr. Sarkozy's case has vacillated between threats against the opponents of his reforms and sugar-coated talk of "solidarity" that's intended to mask the measures 'intent.

    Dissecting French Schizophrenia Rachel Marsden 2010

  • This is less a kids' romp than a hymn to early cinema – sugar-coated with a junior steampunk adventure revolving around an Parisian orphan and his mystery automaton.

    This week's new film releases 2011

  • At this point, things like Seth Godin's sugar-coated corporate speak emerge.

    Marketing 2010

  • More than one reviewer praised it highly, and if you want to introduce your kids to America's classical music, it's the jazz equivalent of a sugar-coated lollipop with something to chew on at its core.

    Payton, Pelt & Hargrove: 3 (Sorta) Young Lions of the Jazz Trumpet Con Chapman 2011

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