From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgloss over something phrasal verbTALK TO somebodyto avoid talking about something unpleasant, or to say as little as possible about it SYN skirt She glossed over the details of her divorce. → gloss→ See Verb table
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gloss over • When they were mentioned, they were usually made light of, or glossed over.• Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations, too.• Amy glossed over the bad times.• It was admirably researched, hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones.• President Kennedy glossed over the racial animus in Mississippi as he let the issue die by moving on to other concerns.• And they can gloss over the social forces that contribute to the appeal of reductionist and deterministic ideas.• But it tends to gloss over them when it draws on mainstream psychology.• Some try to gloss over weak programming with slick packaging. 