gloze

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From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The burly, strong old man stood perfectly still and silent as he, with hesitating and ill-arranged words, tried to gloze over and make endurable his past conduct and intentions as to the future.

From An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope

I will not shun to uphold The righteous cause, nor will I gloze the wrong With flattering titles, lest the kindling wrath Of an offended Maker, sweep me hence.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney

Armed neutrality was a delusive phrase and misrepresented actual conditions; it merely glozed over a state of undeclared hostility and deceived no one.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

At the moment nothing glozed the essential tragic futility of their existence.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

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

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst

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

By comparison, the Past, though glozed beyond all semblance of truth, is a clinging heritage of canonised ignorance, brutality and baseness; a drag rather than a stimulus.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

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

He rejected all the glozing euphemisms which had lulled the House of Lords.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell

Let it suffice him, that he wrong'd me once, Deceived me once, henceforth his glozing arts Are lost on me.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

Me canst thou cheat with glozing wile Till self-reproach away I cast,— Me with joy's lure canst thou beguile Let that day be for me the last!

From Faust — Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He was ingenious in glozing over truths; she, nearly unerring in detecting them.

From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper