Antonyms for sugar-coated

Grammar : Adj, verb

Spell : shoo g-er-koht

Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃʊg ərˌkoʊt

Definition of sugar-coated

Origin : also sugar-coat, 1870, originally of medicine; figuratively, "make more palatable," from 1910. Related: Sugarcoated; sugarcoating.

As in palatable : adj delicious, agreeable
As in sweet : adj sugary
As in tasty : adj delicious
As in appetizing : adj tasting very good
As in sweeten : verb add sugar

Example sentences :

They like "Talks" in small quantities, concentrated form, and sugar-coated.
Extract from : « Inventors & Inventions » by Henry Robinson

Much that is called nature-study is only diluted and sugar-coated science.
Extract from : « Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets » by Various

He swallowed his chagrin, for he could but confess that it was sugar-coated.
Extract from : « The Puppet Crown » by Harold MacGrath

He took off the lid of the box and revealed four sugar-coated pills.
Extract from : « The Paradise Mystery » by J. S. Fletcher

In daily press, in magazines, in every thing I read, the sugar-coated life's prescribed as man's most urgent need.
Extract from : « The Jumble Book of Rhymes » by Frank R. Heine

"I'm hunger-y," whispered Baby, taking a sugar-coated pill out of a box, and touching it with her tongue.
Extract from : « Prudy Keeping House » by Sophie May

If I wanted to promote good reading, I would not treat it as a pill to be sugar-coated.
Extract from : « Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 » by Various

It will be observed that they sugar-coated their certificate with a lot of whereases.
Extract from : « The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 » by James H. Blount

But Tom Van Dorn did smile as he answered, a smile of such sweetness, and of such winning grace that it sugar-coated his words.
Extract from : « In the Heart of a Fool » by William Allen White

Slowly, and in sugar-coated pills of homeopathic size, he administered to them minute doses of the ideas he wished them to digest.
Extract from : « Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day » by Haji A. Browne

Synonyms for sugar-coated

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