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glossing (over)verbpresent participle 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 deodorizing, excusing, explaining away, extenuating, glozing (over), palliating, whitewashing sugarcoating, varnishingapologizing, atoning, confessingaccounting (for), explaining, justifying, rationalizingminimizing, playing down, soft-pedalingalleviating, easing, lessening, lightening, mitigating, moderating, softening, temperingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exculpating, exonerating, vindicating to dismiss as of little importancethis biographer tends to gloss over his subject's many character flaws blinking (at), brushing (aside or off), condoning, discounting, disregarding, excusing, forgiving, glozing (over), ignoring, overlooking, overpassing, papering over, pardoning, passing over, remitting, shrugging off, whitewashing, winking (at) explaining, justifying, rationalizingabsolving, acquitting, clearing, exculpating, exonerating, vindicatingwaiving, waving (aside or off) closing one's eyes to, forgiving and forgetting heeding, marking, minding, noting, objecting (to) |