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sugarcoatedadjective appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome waythose sugarcoated versions of family life that old TV sitcoms portrayed chocolate-box, cloying, corny, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, novelettish, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony(or spooney), sticky, sugary, wet dreamy, misty-eyed, moonstruck, moony, nostalgic, starry-eyedfeel-good, fuzzymelodramatic, soap-operatic, soapy, sudsyflat, insipid, soft-boiled, tasteless, vapid, waterycutesy, twee(chiefly British) unsentimental unadulterated, unvarnishedantisentimental, cynical, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hardheaded to talk about or describe (something) in a way that makes it seem more pleasant or acceptable than it istextbooks that sugarcoat history She has very strong opinions, and she doesn't try to sugarcoat them. varnisheddeodorized, excused, explained away, extenuated, glossed (over), glozed (over), palliated, whitewashedapologized, atoned, confessedaccounted (for), explained, justified, rationalizedminimized, played down, soft-pedaledalleviated, eased, lessened, lightened, mitigated, moderated, softened, temperedabsolved, acquitted, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |