gloze
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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Archaic. flattery or deceit.
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Obsolete. a specious show.
verb
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to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of
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to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)
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to use flattery (on)
noun
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flattery or deceit
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an explanatory note or gloss
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specious or deceptive talk or action
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gloze
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French gloser < Medieval Latin glossāre; see gloss 2
Example Sentences
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"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
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 E. M. Ashe
We neither of us tried to gloze over the truth.
From At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens
"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
The speech of truth is simple, and those things which are just need not wily interpretations; for they have energy themselves; but the unjust speech, unsound in itself, requires cunning preparations to gloze it.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
So long as this apparently inevitable and irremediable discord does not appear to affect the general march of events, it is glozed over.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
And then she glozed the thing over with one of those patent glosses which the devil provides when the occasion needs them.
From A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh
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
"So glozed the Tempter, and his poison tuned; Into the heart of Eve his words made way, Though at the voice much marvelling."
From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
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
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
He was ingenious in glozing over truths; she, nearly unerring in detecting them.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
The line about bowing, smirking and glozing, refers to the comparative insincerity of the higher society into which so many of the scholars must eventually pass.
From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn
Let it suffice him, that he wrong'd me once, Deceived me once, henceforth his glozing arts Are lost on me.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
By way of glozing over these incongruities Lenin's ukase proclaimed that the measures enacted were only provisional, and aimed at enabling Russia to realize the great transformation by degrees.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
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