Glozing

She spoke, glozing over the murder that had been wrought upon the men; and Jason addressed her in answer: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nina was determined that there should be no glozing of matters, no soft words used effectually to stop her in her projected course. ❋ Unknown (2004)

So the glozing black eyes of the child would twitch, and Maria would break into meaningless tears, Concha into a loud, brutal, mocking laugh, like some violent bird. ❋ Unknown (2003)

To accomplish this she relied not only on the attractions of her person, but also on glozing speeches and other feminine artifices. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And that I with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind within. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Those whom the old Puritan sermons denounced as "the glozing neuters of the world" have no easy rog d to haul down, Wear-the-Pantsers, just cause you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there! ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

But oh, Egg the flying Rocket hatched from, navel of the 50-meter radio sky, all proper ghosts of place-forgive him his numbness, his glozing neutrality. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

Thou wouldst forge some glozing tale to beguile the ears of that poor stricken lady, Penelope. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

'Tis ever with glozing words that these children of the wilderness gain the ear and the affections, and entrance through the heart-gates kept by ❋ Various (N/A)

Galloway had no professions of conscience -- beyond such small glozing of hypocrisy as any man must put on if he wishes to be intrusted with the money of a public that associates professions of religion and appearances of respectability with honesty. ❋ Various (N/A)

You’ll like a cream cracker with your cheese’thus glozing over the fact that there was only cheese for supper. ❋ Unknown (1937)

Whence their smooth and glozing manners towards the stranger, and those protestations of undying affection which beguile the unwary -- they wish to be forever in your good graces, for sooner or later you may be of use; and if perchance you do content them, they will marvel ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

He would turn religion into thin refinements; he would convert a deep devotion into a glozing plausibility; and he would transform a hallowed trust into light and flippant presumption. ❋ 1817-1893 (1910)

Their hair is long, unkempt, and strangely white; they make us shrink and shudder with an indefinable repulsion, though the effect may be from an illusory glozing of the light, glimmering dismally through the unhealthy murk; or they may be enduring the tortures of hunger and thirst, not having had to eat or drink since their servant, the convict, was taken away-that is, since yesterday. ❋ Unknown (1901)

But at no point are they so futile as in toning down, glozing over, or altogether ignoring all those immoralities, weaknesses, defects, and failures which perhaps are the very Hallmark of ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)