Peculiar it may be, but it is a real phenomenon and demands explanation—not glib dismissal.
Cut to a video clip of an intense Cruise calling Lauer "glib."
Debate, as we saw last Wednesday night, sometimes over-rewards the glib one-liner, or incentivizes stubborn misrepresentation.
In a campaign so enlivened with scandal, this is not a glib question.
But this cynical take is too glib and sweeping to explain everything.
He was bound for the home of a strange family, speaking a tongue in which he was far from glib.
With what glib facility they describe, but how inadequately they convey.
To stand up before men and pour forth a stream of glib words is generally to make yourself obnoxious to them.
At thirty he was a glib, spry person with a fancy for gay housings.
"I said that anything she said would be taken down by myself and used in evidence against her," was the glib response.
1590s, "smooth and slippery," possibly a shortening of obsolete glibbery "slippery," which is perhaps from Low German glibberig "smooth, slippery," from Middle Low German glibberich, from or related to glibber "jelly." Of words, speakers, etc., from c.1600. Related: Glibly; glibness.
