sugar-coated
2
2.5
- adjective
- /ˈʃʊɡərˌkoʊtɪd/
- She enjoyed the sweet taste of the sugar-coated almonds at the fair.
- sugar-coated cereal
- sugar-coated version
Examples
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She was starving and ate two sugar-coated doughnuts and drank cocoa with tons of cream in it.
Fiction book (2002) -
I had visited once two years prior, got a sugar-coated tour, and was hooked.
Blog text (20) -
There is the candy apples and the sugar-coated almonds.
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When I was 9, I wanted to be a "movie star"; when I was 13, I wanted to be a "pop singer"; and for my 16th birthday, I blew out the candles on my sugar-coated cake and wished that when I grew up, I'd "marry rich."
Blog text (6) -
Mass communication technologies that enable access also enable the mass distribution of manipulative messages carefully disguised and sugar-coated.
Academic text (1994) -
The sugar-coated candies were a hit at the birthday party, and all the kids loved them.
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He bought a box of sugar-coated cereal to enjoy with his morning milk.
Synonyms
31
1.0
Tasting very sweet because it has a lot of sugar
23
2.8
Covered with a thin layer of ice or sweet icing
16
3.4
Covered with a shiny sweet layer, for example on doughnuts
14
3.0
Covered in sugar so it lasts longer, like fruit or nuts
11
1.8
Made to taste sweet by adding sugar or honey
6
1.0
With sugar added to make it sweet
1
5.1
Fruits kept in sugar with a hard shiny coating
How Sugary
- US
1
5.1
14
3.0
2
2.5
23
2.8
16
3.4
8
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sugar-coated is a simple image: you put a coat, a 'covering', of sugar on something, like sugar on strawberries. So sugar-coated means 'covered with a layer of sugar'.