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Glib   /glɪb/   Listen
Glib

adjective
(compar. glibber; superl. glibbest)
1.
Marked by lack of intellectual depth.  "A glib response to a complex question"
2.
Having only superficial plausibility.  Synonyms: pat, slick.  "A slick commercial"
3.
Artfully persuasive in speech.  Synonyms: glib-tongued, smooth-tongued.  "A smooth-tongued hypocrite"



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"Glib" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a perverse envy of all the confused and stammering heroes of history. Is Washington faltering out a few broken and ungrammatical sentences, in reply to the vote of thanks of the Virginia legislature, less manly than the glib tongue in the court-room or in the club that can hit the mark every time? The test of a wit or of a scholar is one thing; the test of a man, I take it, is quite another. In this and some other respects ...
— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs
... paced to and fro, addressing the doorful of eyes, expounding like a glib showman at a museum. Her voice ...
— Maggie: A Girl of the Streets • Stephen Crane
... gentlemen of Bursley, this enlightened and beautiful town which I am now visiting for the first time,' he began in a hard, metallic voice, employing again with the glib accuracy of a machine the exact phrases which he had been using all day, 'look at me—look well at me. How old do you think I am? How old do I seem? Twenty, my dear, do you say?' and he turned with practised insolence to a pot-girl in a red shawl who could not have uttered an audible word to ...
— Tales of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... to Francesca, and told her at a great rate, for in Italian he was glib, to go back to the Signora in the top garden and tell her he had encountered his old friend the Signora Arbuthnot, and was going for a walk with her and would present himself ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim
... I plunged into a glib account of our supposed wanderings to find the Grantline camp; its location off in the Mare Imbrium—hidden in a cavern there. Potan, with the drink, and under the gaze of Anita's eyes, was in a high good humor. He laughed when ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various


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