(v.) To describe a situation, item, or position as better or more desirable than a person with a disinterested standpoint might contend. Often people will use this term either to make an item more attractive for sale or downplay the risks or dangers of a situation or position.
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> [Brooklyn]: You're [candy coat]ing the situation. Bald tires, [mad] rust spots, sagging shocks -- this car is a [piece of crap].

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学英语单词
.cdx
Afro-Argentinians
alienable possession
antialbumin
autotruck
Basivka
beknave
carcass cut-out value
card punching
care-worns
ceratium euarcuatum
coding network
comin'
complementary pair
contenteth
contour-change line
contractile mechanism
corkill
counter-pawn
Curicó, Prov.de
curved track
cystica fibrous osteitis
delayed period
diclometide
dionisios
doc(diesel oil cement)
ductilibility
dust and heat of the day
egyptian-cotton
electro-shock therapy
ensilage
fallacy fallacy
fess point
four-figures
Francois
Gallionella
gants
general form
genitoinfectious
gillingite
give someone the benefit of one's advice
Gloger's rule
hand-compositors
Herrickville
How much does that typewriter weigh
hydro-dehazer
indifferent business of bank
information transformation
just sayin'
lamagra
lethbridges
ligameata palpebrale externum
liquid-crystal display
lonchaea cyaneinitens
magnetic pulse oscillator
mental healing
metal silicon
metauranospinite
metchlorocrurins
mischiefmaker
Mitanal
model house
molar concentration
mountain pacas
mud press
Mölltal
negation second variable
network supervisor software
ophicalcite
papabote
Paramera, Sa.dela
Philip Marlowe
piston power
population index
proper conduction
pterygopolymorphism
radar tuning indicator
ramoconidia
rasching ring
render-float-and-set
reserve for burden adjustment
rhogocyte
roney
Sagone, G.de
shape variation
single parent
skriked
sopranoes
stainless steel watch band
step on someone's corn
sterndrive
sticky coal
straw mat
surly with a sore head
survivor's pension
Texas horned lizard
That cock won't fight
tongue-and-groove rolling
wermen
wind generated sea wave
witchety
working paper procedures