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"To coat with sugar."
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"(transitive) To coat with sugar."
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"sense": "to coat with sugar",
"word": "verzuckern"
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"sense": "to coat with sugar",
"word": "cukormázzal önt le / von be"
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"text": "There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.",
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"ref": "1876 November 1, Mark Twain, “Letter to Mr. Burrough, of St. Louis”, in The Letters Of Mark Twain,, volume 3",
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"ref": "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",
"text": "[…] 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.",
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"To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to."
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"(transitive, figurative) To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to."
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"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "粉飾"
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},
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"ref": "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",
"text": "[…] 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.",
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"sense": "to coat with sugar",
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"sense": "to coat with sugar",
"word": "cukormázzal önt le / von be"
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"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "захаросвам"
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"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "粉飾"
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"roman": "fěnshì",
"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "粉饰"
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"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "kaunistella"
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"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "beschönigen"
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{
"code": "de",
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"word": "schönreden"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "szépít"
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"code": "no",
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"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "rosemale"
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"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "słodzić"
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"roman": "smjaxčatʹ",
"sense": "to give a falsely pleasant appearance",
"word": "смягчать"
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"word": "sugarcoat"
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