gloss

beneath the gloss of success .

beneath the gloss of success was a tragic private life.

the social costs of this growth are glossed over.

the varnishes are available in gloss, satin, and matt.

glossing over an unethical transaction;

to gloss over his failure

the chapter acts as a helpful gloss on Pynchon's general method.

gloss paint can burn strongly and pose a fire risk.

Aquatint Black Gloss looks great!

In this dictionary we often gloss difficult expressions with an explanation in brackets.

The manager glossed over the team’s recent defeat.

The movie glosses over the real issues of the war.

a résumé that glossed over the applicant's lack of experience.See Synonyms at palliate

those laws, which they assumed the liberty of interpreting and glossing upon.

its main use has been to impart a high surface gloss to finished articles.

To improve thermoresistance, weather resistance, water resistance, gloss, electric properties.

They hide their hatred of each other under a surface gloss of good manners.

John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.

Variants are the result of the usual scribal errors, misreadings and the confusion of marginal glosses with portions of the text proper.