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treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly — especially to cover up something that is bad- Yet this Fremen reaction and the obvious element of the Arrakeen diet high in spice were glossed over by Bene Gesserit observers.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- Let us be frank and not gloss over words.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- It was exactly as if they had both had at heart to gloss over any recent little friction.Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
- I have not glossed over matters for policy's sake, for I fear we have already gone too far in that sort of thing.W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
- Seeking to gloss over the sticky moment, he said, "We've just been checking the last-minute stuff, Griphook.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- As she talked about Peter, I had the disturbing thought that maybe he was one suspect we had glossed over too quickly.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- I glossed over the beginning, skipping the motorcycles and the voices, but telling her everything else right up to today's misadventure.Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- But Levin, as he talked to his brother, was continually looking round at Vronsky, trying to think of something to say to him to gloss over his rudeness.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- She did not attempt to gloss over facts, as so many might have been tempted to do, but went straight to the point with an admirable candour.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- She told them, specifically, and didn't gloss over her fear.Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
- From my insider's vantage point, I recognized the attempts to gloss over the real reasons these dogs were back on the market.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
- I saw us as equals, but in doing so, perhaps I glossed over the things she could not overlook.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Her way of glossing over the transaction with Trenor he regarded at once as a tribute to his own acuteness, and a confirmation of his suspicions.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- I've gone through this before with others and have usually been able to gloss over awkward moments.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Or A Highly Biased and Selective History of Hogwarts, Which Glosses Over the Nastier Aspects of the School.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- However, my dear, I may have glossed over an item that was extremely helpful in negotiations with my client.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- He once asked me to tell him about my African trip and I simply glossed over it.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- And though he was smiling faintly, Laila sensed something troubled and wounded beneath, disappointment and defeat glossed over with a veneer of good humor.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- In their autobiographies, they recounted great races in intimate detail, but falls and injuries were glossed over with the most perfunctory language.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
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