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

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

I would not gloze my crime, nor do I know How to address your worships.

From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by James Edgar Smith

It was the case of Esau; he was bidden sell his birthright for pottage, and affection could not gloze over the bargain.

From The Path of the King by John Buchan

He looked at the other's two companions, perfect types of the "heeler," burly and with brutally-cunning features, that wore now a gloze of satisfaction in the work that was forward.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

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

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

"I surely should have lost every claim to your good opinion if I had glozed it over and passed it by for personal reasons," Baynell argued after Ashley had gone.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree

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 poison tuned; Into the heart of Eve his words made way, Though at the voice much marvelling."

From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper

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

From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

And that I with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind within.

From The Athenian Constitution by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon

Short be my speech—nor time affords, Nor my plain temper, glozing words.

From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody

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