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

Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature, Who gloze her lively universal law, As if she had not form'd our cheerful feature To be so tickled with the slightest straw!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood

It would be, of course, possible to refine on and gloze over certain points of the teaching.

From The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding

Yet it would be as falsely sentimental to set up a golden age as a heightening background for the evils that came with coal as it would be to ignore or gloze over those evils.

From The Coming of Coal by Robert W. Bruere

Hark how the villain would gloze now, after his treasonable abuses!

From Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

It is an indication of the inveterate prejudice which has infected the Whig historians of the period, that this scandalous iniquity has been glozed over, or, at the most, timidly criticized.

From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned: Into the heart of Eve his words made way, Though at the voice much marvelling; at length, Not unamazed, she thus in answer spake.

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

"Thrones, altars, judgment-seats and prisons," and all the "tomes of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance" cumber the ground like the unnoticed ruins of a barbaric past.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford

They glozed his faults and made virtues out of his close-grained traits; they praised and lamented, with sighs and mournful words, but Isom’s widow could not weep.

From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

And then she glozed the thing over with one of those patent glosses which the devil provides when the occasion needs them.

From A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh

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

There was some further glozing over of the putrid fact, a good bit of it, and Tom sat back in his chair and listened, outwardly respectful, inwardly hot-hearted and contemptuous.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

Sir, I call things by their proper names, stripped of the glozing drapery of conventional usage.

From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

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

And ever Love hears the poor-folks' crying, And ever Love hears the women's sighing, And ever sweet knighthood's death-defying, And ever wise childhood's deep implying, But never a trader's glozing and lying.

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier