gloze

"For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable."

From Time Magazine Archive

When it pleased him, Sir Giles Mompesson could play the courtier, and fawn and gloze like the rest.

From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

The speech of truth is simple, and those things which are just need not wily interpretations; for they have energy themselves; but the unjust speech, unsound in itself, requires cunning preparations to gloze it.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

For vaunting that with his tongue he can well gloze over injustice, he dares to work deceit, but he is not over-wise.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

You see, gloze it over as they may, one thing is clear, it is finished with England.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Whereat, remembering how she had formerly glozed and gilded the entomologist's unthrift, I remarked, one-fourth in play, three-fourths in earnest, "A good plain business man isn't the least noble work of God, after all."

From Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable

A lie is a lie, be it told in never so good a cause; a thing deplorable and not to be glozed over or boasted of after the fact.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde

So she had thought of him since his evanishment with a regret less sharp for being glozed with a certain contempt.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives

He glozed the matter thus: he had persuaded the owner it was better to take a good tenant at a moderate loss, than to let the Bijou be uninhabited during the present rainy season.

From A Simpleton by Charles Reade

Miss Binswanger raised her eyes, great dark pools glozed over with tears.

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst

Everywhere in art and literature that we meet the devil or his minions, they are tempting and glozing and generally making themselves tricky.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Yet he could not suspect the man of a glozing tongue, for of the leaders of Zionism Nehemiah spoke with, if possible, greater veneration, with an awe trembling on tears.

From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill

Ho, ye who heard me speak so long and oft The glozing word that led me to my will?

From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead

To guide with glozing words, vilely cajole With petty perjuries?

From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Why need she be again tempted by pride, or curiosity, or glozing words, to forfeit her own Eden?

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement