sugarcoat

verb

1. (transitive)To coat with sugar.
2. (figuratively, transitive)To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.

   “There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.”

   “I went to the unheard-of trouble of re-writing the letter and saying the same harsh things softly, so as to sugarcoat the anguish and make it a little more endurable […]”

   “The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all / And I don't gotta be false or sugarcoat it at all”

   “[…] 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.”

   “"The insurgents killed them all?" "Very likely." Scout's expression was kindly, but he was apparently not the sort to sugarcoat things. Then again, maybe he had simply read her receptivity well.”