glossed over

Verb

gloss over (third-person singular simple present glosses over, present participle glossing over, simple past and past participle glossed over)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.
   • They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice.

   Synonyms:

   paper over

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To treat something with less care than it in some ways deserves; to ignore, or at least to discount or dismiss for the current purposes.
   • This book only glosses over quantum mechanics; it doesn't go into detail.