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glozing (over)verbpresent participle of gloze (over) to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuseshe tried to gloze over his drinking problem by noting that he had never done drugs deodorizing, excusing, explaining away, extenuating, glossing (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 importancewe're certainly willing to gloze over a couple of minor historical inaccuracies in an otherwise splendid movie blinking (at), brushing (aside or off), condoning, discounting, disregarding, excusing, forgiving, glossing (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) |