gloze
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From Time Magazine Archive
It seems to comfort their evil consciences, to use good words; and to gloze over bad deeds with holy texts, wrested to their purpose.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
To gloze over your deeds and machinations, to deny the dark cowardly work that has stabbed my peace for ever!
From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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
The verb to gloss, or gloze, means simply to explain or translate, from Greco-Lat. glossa, tongue; but, under the influence of the unrelated gloss, superficial lustre, it has acquired the sense of specious interpretation.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
"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
"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
It cannot be glozed over or minimized away by all the treatises on God, and Love, and Being, helplessly existing in their haughty monumental vacuity.
From Pragmatism by William James
At the moment nothing glozed the essential tragic futility of their existence.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
Man, when redeemed from falsehood and evil, rejects his books "of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance"; and the veil is torn aside from all "believed and hoped."
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
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
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
The planets seven his council made, He hugged the glozing cheat; But ere the pedant's legs were old, No stockings held his feet!
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
He was ingenious in glozing over truths; she, nearly unerring in detecting them.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
Thou wouldst forge some glozing tale to beguile the ears of that poor stricken lady, Penelope.
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
