The word "sugarcoat" is correct and usable in written English.
It usually means to make something appear better than it really is or to cover up the truth. Example sentence: The sales representative was accused of sugarcoating the truth about the product's safety.
"Not going to sugarcoat it," he said.
Mr Rather claimed to have documents proving that Mr Bush had violated a direct order to take a physical examination, and also that his superiors had been put under pressure to "sugarcoat" his evaluation.
However you sugarcoat it, this is not serious reform.
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Taylor-Johnson has made no attempt to sugarcoat the rocky working relationship the duo enjoyed, ahead of the film's Valentine's weekend release.
But maybe that very power suggests why romantic comedy is the genre most prone to distortions and deceptions, why it's the one that offers the greatest temptation to sugarcoat and cut corners: because it's all about identity, the stories it tells are the ones that people tell themselves about themselves.
"I'm not going to sugarcoat it and say, 'Oh, yeah, we'll go around and check on the elderly.' No.
I just, I feel terrible about it, and all I can ever do is tell them the truth, and not try to sugarcoat it, and try to make it up to them".
I'm not going to sugarcoat it," Steve Israel, a Democratic representative from New York and the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told the Associated Press.
"Well, I wasn't trying to sugarcoat history.
"I'm not going to sugarcoat it," the aide said.
