gloze

Plural: glozes

Noun

• A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.
• Flattery.
• appearance.
• A specious show, a deceit.

Verb

Verb Forms: glozed, glozing, glozes

• To explain away or minimize something by specious interpretation.
• To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
• To use flattering language.
• To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.
• To give a shine to (something or someone).

Examples

• You can’t GLOZE over that missed triple-word score; it was a clear oversight.

Anagrams of gloze