gloze

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From Time Magazine Archive

For vaunting that with his tongue he can well gloze over injustice, he dares to work deceit, but he is not over-wise.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

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

He knew his father never cared for him, though his mother tried her best to gloze over the indifference of her husband.

From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson

But if you had made a study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that gloze of oily, apologetic appeal.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe

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

He saw the agrarian feud—not as he had been wont to read of it, glozed over by the New York papers.

From Stories by English Authors: Ireland by Samuel Lover

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

"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

Half forgotten incidents came back to her—things which had been glozed over or dismissed with a laugh.

From The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey

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

Why need she be again tempted by pride, or curiosity, or glozing words, to forfeit her own Eden?

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement

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

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

Yet he could not suspect the man of a glozing tongue, for of the leaders of Zionism Nehemiah spoke with, if possible, greater veneration, with an awe trembling on tears.

From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill