Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Flattery; deceit.
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- verb Present participle of
gloze .
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Examples
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She spoke, glozing over the murder that had been wrought upon the men; and Jason addressed her in answer:
The Argonautica 2008
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Nina was determined that there should be no glozing of matters, no soft words used effectually to stop her in her projected course.
Nina Balatka 2004
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So the glozing black eyes of the child would twitch, and Maria would break into meaningless tears, Concha into a loud, brutal, mocking laugh, like some violent bird.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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To accomplish this she relied not only on the attractions of her person, but also on glozing speeches and other feminine artifices.
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And that I with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind within.
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And that I with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind within.
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Those whom the old Puritan sermons denounced as "the glozing neuters of the world" have no easy rog d to haul down, Wear-the-Pantsers, just cause you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there!
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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But oh, Egg the flying Rocket hatched from, navel of the 50-meter radio sky, all proper ghosts of place-forgive him his numbness, his glozing neutrality.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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And that I with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind within.
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Thou wouldst forge some glozing tale to beguile the ears of that poor stricken lady, Penelope.
brtom commented on the word glozing
I under fair pretence of friendly ends,
And well plac't words of glozing courtesie
Baited with reasons not unplausible
Wind me into the easie-hearted man,
And hugg him into snares.
Milton, Comus
December 16, 2006