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

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

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

We neither of us tried to gloze over the truth.

From At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

The speech of truth is simple, and those things which are just need not wily interpretations; for they have energy themselves; but the unjust speech, unsound in itself, requires cunning preparations to gloze it.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

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

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

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

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

He glozed the matter, too, in his own mind.

From International Short Stories English by Various

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

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

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

From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody

But unless ye bring The burier, without glozing ye shall tell, Craven advantage clearly worketh bane.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

But at no point are they so futile as in toning down, glozing over, or altogether ignoring all those immoralities, weaknesses, defects, and failures which perhaps are the very Hallmark of Genius.

From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis