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Gloze   Listen
verb
Gloze  v. i.  (past & past part. glozed; pres. part. glozing)  
1.
To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. "A false, glozing parasite." "So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned."
2.
To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.





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"Gloze" Quotes from Famous Books



... than repair. Mend, patch, take down a little here, prop up some tottering nuisance there, fill in gaping chinks with patent legislative cement, coat old facades with bright paint, hide decay beneath a gloze of novelty, titivate, decorate, furbish—and after all your house is not a new one, but a whited sepulchre shaking to decay. Repair? There is a Repair party, intermediating between Tories and Reformers—Radicals or ...
— Ginx's Baby • Edward Jenkins


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