gloze

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You know as well as I that it does not gloze a poor book, nor pass over defects in silence.

It is astonishing the trouble men will be at to find out when to plant potatoes, and gloze over the eternal meaning of the skies.

One marked aspect of recent devil-fiction is the tendency to gloze over his sins and to humanize him.