gloze

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

You see, gloze it over as they may, one thing is clear, it is finished with England.

I would not gloze my crime, nor do I know How to address your worships.

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

At dark the old man lit two lamps, which served dimly to gloze the shadows, and thrust logs of wood into the cast-iron stove.

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

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

It would be, of course, possible to refine on and gloze over certain points of the teaching.

But every one knew that she was a usurper—a fact which no personal merits could gloze over.

It was the case of Esau; he was bidden sell his birthright for pottage, and affection could not gloze over the bargain.