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
Any attempt to gloze the situation, he felt, would be futile.
From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph
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.
From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward
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 Sigourney, Lydia Howard
We neither of us tried to gloze over the truth.
From At the Point of the Sword by Hayens, Herbert
They glozed his faults and made virtues out of his close-grained traits; they praised and lamented, with sighs and mournful words, but Isom’s widow could not weep.
From The Bondboy by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
It is an indication of the inveterate prejudice which has infected the Whig historians of the period, that this scandalous iniquity has been glozed over, or, at the most, timidly criticized.
From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
Half forgotten incidents came back to her—things which had been glozed over or dismissed with a laugh.
From The Man from Jericho by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
Miss Binswanger raised her eyes, great dark pools glozed over with tears.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie
It cannot be glozed over or minimized away by all the treatises on God, and Love, and Being, helplessly existing in their haughty monumental vacuity.
From Pragmatism by James, William
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
Sir, I call things by their proper names, stripped of the glozing drapery of conventional usage.
From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
Here are no sons of Atreus nor glozing Ulysses.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
He rejected all the glozing euphemisms which had lulled the House of Lords.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine
Me canst thou cheat with glozing wile Till self-reproach away I cast,— Me with joy's lure canst thou beguile Let that day be for me the last!
From Faust — Part 1 by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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