Synonym: hush up, skate over, skimp over, sleek over, slur over, smooth over, whitewash. Similar words: passover, pass over, glossophobia, glass over, gloss, glossy, blossom, glossary. Meaning: v. 1. treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly 2. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error.
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1. Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
2. He wants to gloss over his mistakes.
3. John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.
4. She tried to gloss over her past mistake.
5. And they can gloss over the social forces that contribute to the appeal of reductionist and deterministic ideas.
6. Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations, too.
7. Both Democrats and Whigs wanted to gloss over sectional differences and cement party loyalties, not divide the country.
8. It's a mistake to hide that and gloss over it.
9. Some try to gloss over weak programming with slick packaging.
10. But it tends to gloss over them when it draws on mainstream psychology.
11. He sounded like generals everywhere, who gloss over their setbacks and remember their triumphs.
12. It is bad policy to gloss over the difficulties.
13. One should not gloss over one's shortcomings.
14. Accounts "gloss over the genocidal character of the Soviet regime in the 1930s, which killed systematically rather than episodically, " says Naimark.
15. Astronomers typically gloss over these questions, assuming our own typicality sufficiently obvious to warrant no further discussion.
16. A person , who is imperious and tries to gloss over his fault, is bound to suffer in the end.
17. They try to extend the theories to deal with the gender issues they gloss over.
18. They no longer have any time for politicians who try to gloss over the harsh facts of life.
19. Such psychologistic interpretations of the unconscious tend, like psychoanalysis itself, to gloss over gender and other social relations.sentencedict.com/gloss over.html
20. He took a much greater and more serious risk, one which his relatives to this day gloss over or fudge.
21. God's comfort can only be experienced by those who are prone to weep over their sin and not gloss over it.
22. He poses the question that most Americans prefer to gloss over: is California governable?
23. Although it"s tempting, it doesn"t work. By all means gloss over the unflattering things. But out-right fibbing NEVER pays.
24. Correct your mistake the moment you realize it and don't try to gloss over your mistake.
More similar words: passover, pass over, glossophobia, glass over, gloss, glossy, blossom, glossary, glossitis, diglossia, blossoming, hearing loss, sovereign, sovereignty, glover, national sovereignty, sensorineural hearing loss, crossing over, over and over, from cover to cover, over and over again, loss, floss, cross out, knossos, losses, at a loss, net loss, possessor, colossus.