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View definitions for gloss over

gloss over

verb as in belie

verb as in play down

verb as in whitewash

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He also said health care providers should not gloss over possible or suspect cases.

All three outlets remained fixated on surgery, and seemed to only gloss over questions of identity.

This one is the “M7,” and before your eyes gloss over again, know this: this chip changes much about what the iPhone can do.

Writing about addiction, even in memoirs of addiction, tends to gloss over this aspect.

Instead, she chose to gloss over the subject and speak in generalities.

There was no attempt made to gloss over ugly transactions with a veneer of morality.

In this romanceless, colorless dreariness it was not easy for Mamise to gloss over the details of her meeting with Nicky Easton.

There was no attempt to gloss over the facts, and deceive himself.

Perhaps that is a slight exaggeration--we did gloss over a few centuries in the Middle Ages.

That is one advantage of women, she told herself, after twenty-five they gloss over their birthdays like improprieties.

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On this page you'll find 359 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gloss over, such as: distort, mislead, misstate, color, conceal, and disguise.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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