Synonyms for gloss over
gloss over

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1. gloss over

   Cloak, from the French, and palliate, from the Latin, are the same in original signification, but have diverged in meaning; a cloak may be used to hide completely the person or some object carried about the person, or it may but partly veil the figure, making the outlines less distinct; cloak is used in the former, palliate, in the latter sense; to cloak a sin is to attempt to hide it from discovery; to palliate it is to attempt to hide some part of its blameworthiness. "When we palliate our own or others' faults we do not seek to cloke them altogether, but only to extenuate the guilt of them in part." Trench Study of Words lect. vi, p. 266. Either to palliate or to extenuate is to admit the fault; but to extenuate is rather to apologize for the offender, while to palliate is to disguise the fault; hence, we speak of extenuating but not of palliating circumstances, since circumstances can not change the inherent wrong of an act, tho they may lessen the blameworthiness of him who does it; palliating a bad thing by giving it a mild name does not make it less evil. In reference to diseases, to palliate is really to diminish their violence, or partly to relieve the sufferer. Compare ALLEVIATE; HIDE.

   Synonyms:
   apologize for, cloak, conceal, cover, extenuate, hide, mitigate, palliate, screen, veil

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1. gloss over, skate over, smooth over, slur over, skimp oververb

   treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly

   Synonyms:
   smooth over, slur over, skimp over, skate over, whitewash, hush up, sleek over

2. whitewash, gloss over, sleek over, hush upverb

   cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error

   "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"

   Synonyms:
   shut up, smooth over, hush up, skimp over, skate over, slur over, still, whitewash, hush, silence, quieten, sleek over

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1. gloss over

   Synonyms:
   disguise, varnish, color, make plausible

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1. Carly Fiorina:

   I’ve been very transparent about the fact that I was fired in a boardroom brawl at Hewlett-Packard, it’s not unfair at all to question that. What’s unfair is when people gloss over the facts.

2. Betty Deas Clark:

   I believe we're moving forward ... Forgiveness is the message of the hour, to say forgiveness is not to negate what has taken place. We don't want to gloss over what has happened.

3. Melissa Jacobs:

   They just sort of gloss over things to make it seem as if everybody is this wonderful, altruistic person.

4. Alex French:

   We feel fortunate that The Atlantic decided to work with us, and we are grateful that the piece has gone through The Atlantic's thoughtful editorial process, which included another rigorous fact-check and robust legal vetting, singer's response to The Atlantic story wrongfully used' homophobia' to deflect from sexual assault allegations and GLAAD urges the media and the industry at large to not gloss over the fact that survivors of sexual assault should be put first.

5. Amanda Gorman:

   In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal. It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.