sugar-coat

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Wales captain Dewi Lake, one of four Welsh players sent to the sin-bin, made no attempt to sugar-coat his side's 12th straight Six Nations defeat.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

"We're now asking whether the same sugar-coat trick shows up in other hard-to-treat cancers, such as glioblastoma, and in non-cancer diseases where the immune system is misled," he said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2026

“I can’t really sugar-coat this in any way, so I am not going to try,” Earps said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

"The FBU leadership has been determined not to sugar-coat the offer," FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack said in a statement.

From Reuters • Mar. 6, 2023

The semi-religious are built around religious and symbolic heroes, make a bid for the heroic and the gang spirit, and seek to inculcate more or less of religious truth by the sugar-coat method.

From The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys by Alexander, John L.