candy-coated
Example Sentences
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Director Mun is not handing her audience some candy-coated reunion story.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
The result is a pastel-coloured, candy-coated club anthem, whose infectious energy kept it in the charts for 39 weeks.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023
“They’re not candy-coated — there’s an edge to them.”
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
The game is bright, and looks to be full of mysterious libraries, candy-coated worlds and bewildering caverns.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022
The outer leaves were going red, yellow, and orange, while the inner ones still held the deep green of summer, so that the trees appeared candy-coated.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
