Definition of "gloss over" [gloss over]

• To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash. (verb)
• To treat something with less care than it deserves; to skimp. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "As they advance through school, like Pedro, they are apt to overutilize clues from sentences, engaging in a guessing game in which they gloss over some of the words due to their incomplete perceiving of the language sounds; they then strive to supply those missing words based on what would make sense."
• "Secondly, the dream is re-interpreted by Jung's "constructive method" so as to gloss over the gross Freudian phallicism."
• "Overruled in his own opinions, compelled to deliver, and to gloss over those of his opponents, and even to keep their secrets, he could not come forward in his own attitude."