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

Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning: But I will gloze with him.

From Pericles by Shakespeare, William

Any attempt to gloze the situation, he felt, would be futile.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature, Who gloze her lively universal law, As if she had not form'd our cheerful feature To be so tickled with the slightest straw!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

Doub′le-gild, to gild with double coatings of gold: to gloze over.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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 James, William

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

From International Short Stories English by Various

A lie is a lie, be it told in never so good a cause; a thing deplorable and not to be glozed over or boasted of after the fact.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

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 Reade, Charles

Armed neutrality was a delusive phrase and misrepresented actual conditions; it merely glozed over a state of undeclared hostility and deceived no one.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

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

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

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

Here are no sons of Atreus nor glozing Ulysses.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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

From Lady of the Lake by Moody, William Vaughn

Sir, I call things by their proper names, stripped of the glozing drapery of conventional usage.

From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)