gloze

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From Time Magazine Archive

It seems to comfort their evil consciences, to use good words; and to gloze over bad deeds with holy texts, wrested to their purpose.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

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 Ashe, E. M.

"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 Ford, Paul Leicester

It's the pair o' them," Tommy said to Elspeth at the first opportunity, "that sometimes comes here at nights and kindles the fire and warms themsels at the gloze.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)