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glib
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glib
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glɪb
/
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glib
]
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adjective,
glib·ber,
glib·best.
1.
readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so:
a glib talker; glib answers.
2.
easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners.
3.
Archaic
.
agile; spry.
Origin:
1585–95;
compare obsolete
glibbery
slippery (cognate with
Dutch
glibberig
)
Related forms
glib·ly,
adverb
glib·ness,
noun
un·glib,
adjective
un·glib·ly,
adverb
Synonyms
1.
talkative, loquacious; facile, smooth.
See
fluent.
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Example Sentences
He comes over as a
glib
young man with a partisan take on politics, expressed in what he thought was a private conversation.
This entertaining if occasionally
glib
volume may seem to some readers a model of how to put one's own life into verse.
What stood out was his
glib
chatter.
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He comes over as a
glib
young man with a partisan take on politics, expressed in what he thought was a private conversation.
This entertaining if occasionally
glib
volume may seem to some readers a model of how to put one's own life into verse.
What stood out was his
glib
chatter.
The
glib
answers — pull out, fight harder — aren't viable options.
But as a standalone explanation, this just feels too
glib
, too easy.
Sometimes I wonder if the astrophysicists have been too
glib
for their own good.
He is breezy without being
glib
, and original without being eccentric.
The parallelism, while rhetorically effective, was also overly
glib
.
I'm suspicious of any answer that is too quick and too
glib
.
It would be
glib
to suggest that it will never end and that the market will take care of it.
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World English Dictionary
glib
(ɡlɪb)
—
adj
,
glibber
,
glibbest
fluent and easy, often in an insincere or deceptive way
[C16: probably from Middle Low German
glibberich
slippery]
'glibly
—
adv
'glibness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
glib
1593, possibly shortening of obsolete glibbery "slippery," from Low Ger. glibberig "smooth, slippery," from M.L.G. glibberich, from glibber "jelly."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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"It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense; and that, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always
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