It is a meekly-conceived, yet substantially-built little church, with a rural placidity and neatness about it, reminding one of goodness without showiness, and use without sugar-coated detail.

make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the pill, sweeten.

The consciousness that he could do all this sugar-coated his Wild Western experiences, which otherwise might have been a little disagreeable.

Their sugar-coating was spread too thick.

| | | | SUGAR-COATED PILLS OF COD-LIVER EXTRACT.

I thought I'd tell you the story, so if you ever meet up with this shave-tail preacher and he wants a headache pill you can slip him some sugar-coated arsenic.

They thought they had so sugar-coated my ideas that the resolutions would pass without discussion.

The "moral" is so skilfully inwoven into the substance of the narrative as to conceal the appearance of design, and the reader has swallowed the pill before its sugar-coating of fancy has dissolved in his mouth.

The fact that she now has upwards of 1,200,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners is sufficient refutation of the sugar-coated propaganda describing how all the peoples who make up Austria-Hungary rushed loyally and enthusiastically to arms to the defence of their Emperor and common country.