Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sugarcoat
Participle: sugarcoated
Gerund: sugarcoating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sugarcoat |
| you | sugarcoat |
| he;she;it | sugarcoats |
| we | sugarcoat |
| you | sugarcoat |
| they | sugarcoat |
Perfect
| I | have sugarcoated |
| you | have sugarcoated |
| he;she;it | has sugarcoated |
| we | have sugarcoated |
| you | have sugarcoated |
| they | have sugarcoated |
Past
| I | sugarcoated |
| you | sugarcoated |
| he;she;it | sugarcoated |
| we | sugarcoated |
| you | sugarcoated |
| they | sugarcoated |
Pluperfect
| I | had sugarcoated |
| you | had sugarcoated |
| he;she;it | had sugarcoated |
| we | had sugarcoated |
| you | had sugarcoated |
| they | had sugarcoated |
Future
| I | will sugarcoat |
| you | will sugarcoat |
| he;she;it | will sugarcoat |
| we | will sugarcoat |
| you | will sugarcoat |
| they | will sugarcoat |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sugarcoated |
| you | will have sugarcoated |
| he;she;it | will have sugarcoated |
| we | will have sugarcoated |
| you | will have sugarcoated |
| they | will have sugarcoated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sugarcoat |
| you | sugarcoat |
| he;she;it | sugarcoat |
| we | sugarcoat |
| you | sugarcoat |
| they | sugarcoat |
Perfect
| I | have sugarcoated |
| you | have sugarcoated |
| he;she;it | have sugarcoated |
| we | have sugarcoated |
| you | have sugarcoated |
| they | have sugarcoated |
Imperfect
| I | sugarcoated |
| you | sugarcoated |
| he;she;it | sugarcoated |
| we | sugarcoated |
| you | sugarcoated |
| they | sugarcoated |
Pluperfect
| I | had sugarcoated |
| you | had sugarcoated |
| he;she;it | had sugarcoated |
| we | had sugarcoated |
| you | had sugarcoated |
| they | had sugarcoated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sugarcoat |
| you | would sugarcoat |
| he;she;it | would sugarcoat |
| we | would sugarcoat |
| you | would sugarcoat |
| they | would sugarcoat |
Perfect
| I | would have sugarcoated |
| you | would have sugarcoated |
| he;she;it | would have sugarcoated |
| we | would have sugarcoated |
| you | would have sugarcoated |
| they | would have sugarcoated |
Imperative
| you | sugarcoat |
| we | Let's sugarcoat |
| you | sugarcoat |
Verbs conjugated like 'sugarcoat'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sugarcoat'
sugar-coat,
charcoal,
garrot,
marcot,
overcoat,
sagaciate,
scoat,
skim-coat,
snapchat,
spincoat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
3. Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
4. Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
5. Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
6. Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
7. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
8. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
9. Old Italian zuccherobor.
10. Old French çucrebor.
11. Middle English sugre
12. English sugar
13. Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor.
14. Latin cotta
15. Old French cottebor.
16. Middle English cote
17. English coat
18. English sugarcoat
19. From sugar + coat; figurative sense from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste (sugarcoating the pill).
Sample Sentences
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There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.
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I went to the unheard-of trouble of re-writing the letter and saying the same harsh things softly, so as to sugarcoat the anguish and make it a little more endurable […] [1876 November 1, Mark Twain, “Letter to Mr. Burrough, of St. Louis”, in The Letters Of Mark Twain,, volume 3:]
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The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all / And I don't gotta be false or sugarcoat it at all [2000, “The Real Slim Shady”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:]
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[…] And I don't think we can sugarcoat both the human toll that is unfolding in Ukraine, but also how it is reordering the international architecture in ways that we haven't seen in decades. [2022 March 23, Barack Obama, 2:52 from the start, in Centennial Celebration Conversation with President Barack Obama and Yo-Yo Ma, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, via YouTube:]
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"The insurgents killed them all?"
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"Very likely." Scout's expression was kindly, but he was apparently not the sort to sugarcoat things. Then again, maybe he had simply read her receptivity well. [2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2024:]