to gloss
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8.0
- verb
- /ɡlɔs/
- - Stop glossing over the facts.
- gloss over the fact
- gloss over the truth
- gloss over problems
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Watch on YouTubeWe gloss gloss over Jim Crow stuff, segregation.
- We gloss gloss over Jim Crow stuff, segregation.
- So very often people sort of gloss realism about something by saying that it's part of the mind independent fabric of the world.
- I just, I don't want to gloss over too much what went down.
- But it's really important to not gloss over it.
- It manages to gloss over them.
- it's just fully fucking glossed over that millions of people just lost
- And to have this giant piece of your past that informs who you are and constantly finding ways to gloss over it.
- I mean, the hypocrisy, you can't overstate it with MAGA, but it's just, it's so commonplace, you kind of just gloss over it.
- This all sounds quite obvious, but what's happened is that some people who think they're being particularly environmentally friendly are glossing over these problems.
Examples
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Not that there was an attempt to ignore these events or gloss them over.
Fiction book (1994) -
And I think we can kind of gloss over a lot of the problem and just agree on the solutions.
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- I tried to gloss things over a little... in my letters.
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A correct analysis of the global economic order cannot gloss over this reality without losing its critical edge.
Academic text (2010) -
So we said, okay, let's just gloss right over it.
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"I forced a little laugh, trying to gloss it over.
Fiction book (1992) -
You can't gloss over serious problems, everybody.
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Whatever it is, there's no way I can gloss over the facts here and make it sound good.
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Yet a careful reading of Tocqueville shows that he hardly glossed over the problem of women's inequality.
Academic text (1996) -
You can't gloss over serious problems if you want to find real solutions.
Synonyms
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6.9
Give a false story about someone or something to trick people
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2.5
Try to explain a mistake to make it seem less serious
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6.5
To change someone's opinion or how a story appears, often unfairly
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5.0
Make something unpleasant seem nicer than it is
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7.5
To change numbers or facts dishonestly to hide the truth
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6.0
To hide bad facts to make something seem better
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5.9
To say something that is not exactly what happened to make it look better
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6.5
To make up a false reason to avoid blame
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7.7
Change facts on purpose to make something seem better
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Etymology
To gloss over something, meaning to give a misleading or pleasant explanation, grows from that same idea of 'shining over' a fault, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of putting a bright cover story on a problem, so to gloss is to explain in a way that hides the true faults.