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cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
She tried to gloss over her mistakes
Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin - treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
How To Use gloss over In A Sentence
- A person , who is imperious and tries to gloss over his fault, is bound to suffer in the end.
- Let us gloss over the fact that one of those convicted for exposing her name is his own cousin. Times, Sunday Times
- Both the initial trial and the appeal hearing appeared to gloss over quite serious inconsistencies in the evidence. Times, Sunday Times
- Why highlight the tragic demise of one woman, and gloss over the deaths of the 14 men?
- None of this can quite gloss over the fact that Spain had so many key players missing. Times, Sunday Times
- And the film, while it suffers from a lack of coherence and focus, has enough brutally perceptive and hilarious moments to gloss over the rough edges. Times, Sunday Times
- The film doesn't gloss over the violent nature of the drugs industry, but its sympathetic portrait of the mules is quietly provocative.
- Some try to gloss over weak programming with slick packaging.
- Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
- I can't honestly say that I managed to see - or hear - the entire movie, interrupted as it was by various small bouncing yelling things but what I did see was amusing enough, if somewhat overinclined to gloss over the reality of the predator/prey relationship, give far too much credit to sushi, and continue to uphold the charming concept that the animals in zoos not only love being there but plan to perform for the crowds. Forgot to mention:
