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

I will not shun to uphold The righteous cause, nor will I gloze the wrong With flattering titles, lest the kindling wrath Of an offended Maker, sweep me hence.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney

Why should we gloze and flatter, to be proved Liars hereafter?

From Oedipus Trilogy by Francis Storr

Raffles was a villain, when all is written; it is no service to his memory to gloze the fact; yet I have done so myself before to-day.

From A Thief in the Night Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

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

From The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford

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

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

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

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

"I surely should have lost every claim to your good opinion if I had glozed it over and passed it by for personal reasons," Baynell argued after Ashley had gone.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree

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

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

But at no point are they so futile as in toning down, glozing over, or altogether ignoring all those immoralities, weaknesses, defects, and failures which perhaps are the very Hallmark of Genius.

From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis

Here are no sons of Atreus nor glozing Ulysses.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

He was ingenious in glozing over truths; she, nearly unerring in detecting them.

From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

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