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- adjective Coated with sugar.
- adjective idiomatic, figuratively Made superficially more attractive. This often implies the reality has faults that are being hidden.
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Examples
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The genre, which might be described as sugarcoated bubblegum hip-hop, may be disposable, but it is extremely catchy and rhythmically elastic.
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Mafia Wars out now on the iPhone - Filed under: Gaming, Odds and ends, Freeware, App Store Unfortunately, the classic mobile game of Dope Wars (I played hours of it on my old TI-80) still hasn't been allowed on the App Store -- Apple reportedly wasn't happy with the drug-themed gameplay, and so there are only "sugarcoated" versions there now (including one that is literally ...
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It is not the simple, sugarcoated filmed rerun of a graphic, romanticized scene.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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They are disappearing as we are overrun by a more sugarcoated society...
Bill Bush: The Little Gallery That Did: This Artweek.LA (October 2-8, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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There were no carefully crafted and focus grouped code words that sugarcoated the abuses -- just the honest truth spoken from the heart.
Wayne Besen: Hillary Clinton's Historic LGBT Speech Provides Hope and Change Wayne Besen 2011
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There were no carefully crafted and focus grouped code words that sugarcoated the abuses -- just the honest truth spoken from the heart.
Wayne Besen: Hillary Clinton's Historic LGBT Speech Provides Hope and Change Wayne Besen 2011
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There were no carefully crafted and focus grouped code words that sugarcoated the abuses -- just the honest truth spoken from the heart.
Wayne Besen: Hillary Clinton's Historic LGBT Speech Provides Hope and Change Wayne Besen 2011
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They are disappearing as we are overrun by a more sugarcoated society...
Bill Bush: The Little Gallery That Did: This Artweek.LA (October 2-8, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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There were no carefully crafted and focus grouped code words that sugarcoated the abuses -- just the honest truth spoken from the heart.
Wayne Besen: Hillary Clinton's Historic LGBT Speech Provides Hope and Change Wayne Besen 2011
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There were no carefully crafted and focus grouped code words that sugarcoated the abuses -- just the honest truth spoken from the heart.
Wayne Besen: Hillary Clinton's Historic LGBT Speech Provides Hope and Change Wayne Besen 2011
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