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

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

From The Path of the King by John Buchan

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

From The Soul of a People by H. (Harold) Fielding

"Don't try to gloze it over," cut in Blake.

From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

They now repent the deed of blame, Would gladly gloze it over; They dare not glory in their shame; The facts almost they cover.

From Rampolli by George MacDonald

Man, when redeemed from falsehood and evil, rejects his books "of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance"; and the veil is torn aside from all "believed and hoped."

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

Whereat, remembering how she had formerly glozed and gilded the entomologist's unthrift, I remarked, one-fourth in play, three-fourths in earnest, "A good plain business man isn't the least noble work of God, after all."

From Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable

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 Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

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

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

It woke her out of her dreams; glozed and dewy from them she looked at it, and smiled at him through it.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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

Me canst thou cheat with glozing wile Till self-reproach away I cast,— Me with joy's lure canst thou beguile;— Let that day be for me the last!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke

There was some further glozing over of the putrid fact, a good bit of it, and Tom sat back in his chair and listened, outwardly respectful, inwardly hot-hearted and contemptuous.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

Me canst thou cheat with glozing wile Till self-reproach away I cast,— Me with joy's lure canst thou beguile Let that day be for me the last!

From Faust — Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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