Meanings (ES + gloss)
azucarar • emborrizar con mishqui
To coat with sugar.
adulciguar • adulcir • azucarar • dorar la píldora • dulcificar • edulcorar • endulcecer (desus.) • endulzar • maquillar
To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.
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 […]
There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.