Sentence:  Is this the smoothest newsreader ever? Joanna Gosling more than made up for missing her cue on BBC News this morning (October 27) with a suave recovery. Gosling was late to start her report, but <WSD>styled it out</WSD> with a smooth "belated good morning". 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To pretend not to be embarrassed; to deny that an embarrassing thing ever happened.