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

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

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

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

It's the pair o' them," Tommy said to Elspeth at the first opportunity, "that sometimes comes here at nights and kindles the fire and warms themsels at the gloze.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The ham dip gaed up the lum in a gloze, an' here was Sandy an' Dauvid's wife lyin' i' the middle o' a' the mairter o' rubbitch.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

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

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

So she had thought of him since his evanishment with a regret less sharp for being glozed with a certain contempt.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives

So the matter might be adjudged elsewhere, but in this world glozed and softened.

From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston

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

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 Daniel J. MacDonald

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

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

The line about bowing, smirking and glozing, refers to the comparative insincerity of the higher society into which so many of the scholars must eventually pass.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn

Perturbéd at dews that drip from dome As wattling apes their horrors groan, The witch forsakes each glozing gnome, Affrighted at this gurgling vale.

From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque