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What does gloss over mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gloss over? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) To treat something with less care than it deserves; to skimp.
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But at the same time, our hero-worship of fiction allows us to gloss over, or even embrace, certain issues we would do best to scrutinise a little more discerningly.
If anything, this is a lively book that doesn't bog the reader down in minutia, or gloss over important details.
Tuesday's session before the Gafsa Court of Appeals was the judicial gloss over an injustice.
So, without further ado, let's quickly gloss over his suggestions and move onto my much more sensible and practical top ten.
They gloss over rather than pinpoint problems, and still lack summaries, analysis of options, and firm conclusions and recommendations.
Should we gloss over them as proof of the power of suggestion to treat psychosomatic illness?

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