gloze
/ɡləʊz
/verb
1 [with object] literary Make excuses for: the demeanour of Mathews is rather glozed over...
- Normally, spokesmen and chiefs of the Cabinet have the responsibility to gloze over the achievements of the government they represent.
- Their inappropriateness in their new western setting is glozed over by the statement that they are ‘very old,’ - a statement which might, with equal pertinence if less interest, be made about any pudding-stone from the neighboring hills.
- In our hurry and impatience we thus tend to fall into confusion and error unwittingly; the sophist, on the other hand, deliberately glozes over or omits what is not obvious, and hopes to cover up his tracks by means of all the tricks of his trade.
2 [no object] archaic Use ingratiating language: we would not that thou shouldst learn too early how men’s tongues can gloze and flatter
3 [no object] archaic Make a comment or comments: tomes of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance
Origin
Middle English: from Old French gloser, from glose 'a gloss, comment', based on Latin glossa (see gloss2).