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glossed (over)verbpast tense of gloss (over) to make (something) seem less bad by offering excusesI don't want to gloss over her misbehavior, but keep in mind that she's been under a lot of stress lately deodorized, excused, explained away, extenuated, glozed (over), palliated, whitewashed sugarcoated, varnishedapologized, atoned, confessedaccounted (for), explained, justified, rationalizedminimized, played down, soft-pedaledalleviated, eased, lessened, lightened, mitigated, moderated, softened, temperedabsolved, acquitted, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated to dismiss as of little importancethis biographer tends to gloss over his subject's many character flaws blinked (at), brushed (aside or off), condoned, discounted, disregarded, excused, forgave, glozed (over), ignored, overlooked, overpassed, papered over, pardoned, passed over, remitted, shrugged off, whitewashed, winked (at) explained, justified, rationalizedabsolved, acquitted, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicatedwaived, waved (aside or off) closed one's eyes to, forgave and forgot heeded, marked, minded, noted, objected (to) |