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

To gloze over your deeds and machinations, to deny the dark cowardly work that has stabbed my peace for ever!

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

But if you had made a study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that gloze of oily, apologetic appeal.

From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.

Official attempts to gloze over the incident would have been amusing if they were not pathetic.

From Pan-Islam by Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman)

I wish to gloze over nothing; I did not make my own nature, and in these pages I describe it as it was and is without palliation or excuse.

From Doctor Therne by Haggard, Henry Rider

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 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

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 Cable, George Washington

For Shelley laws are “obscure records of dark and barbarous echos,” “tomes of reasoned wrong glozed on by ignorance.”

From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.

Half forgotten incidents came back to her—things which had been glozed over or dismissed with a laugh.

From The Man from Jericho by Litsey, Edwin Carlile

It woke her out of her dreams; glozed and dewy from them she looked at it, and smiled at him through it.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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

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

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

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 Ashe, E. M.

Thou wouldst forge some glozing tale to beguile the ears of that poor stricken lady, Penelope.

From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

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

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine