Examples
“She spoke, glozing over the murder that had been wrought upon the men; and Jason addressed her in answer:”
“Nina was determined that there should be no glozing of matters, no soft words used effectually to stop her in her projected course.”
“To accomplish this she relied not only on the attractions of her person, but also on glozing speeches and other feminine artifices.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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!”
“And that I with glozing smoothness hid a cruel mind within.”
“Thou wouldst forge some glozing tale to beguile the ears of that poor stricken lady, Penelope.”
“Tis ever with glozing words that these children of the wilderness gain the ear and the affections, and entrance through the heart-gates kept by”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
“Galloway had no professions of conscience -- beyond such small glozing of hypocrisy as any man must put on if he wishes to be intrusted with the money of a public that associates professions of religion and appearances of respectability with honesty.”
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gynaecology, gynaecomania, gyromancy, gyrograph, gyve, gyrus, gyron, gynaecocracy, gyrose, gynics, gutturotetany, gymnophobia and 439 more...
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Fubbery and Blaflum
An arcade of artifice and deception.
fubbery, blaflum, Drunken Fist, escamoterie, archdeceiver, legerdemain, prestidigitation, prestidigital, glaik, imposture, fraud, disguise and 78 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
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How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 more...
Tweets
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brtom 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 Dec 15, 2006