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glibness

[ glib-nis ]

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noun

the quality of being easily fluent, especially in a way that is thoughtless, superficial, or insincere:
There's a certain glibness that comes with trying to package big, complex ideas and distill them into very consumable chunks.
After a while her glibness makes you wonder if you can trust her.

Seeing it written down, it looks dangerously close to glibness.

Then as now, inside the Washington Beltway hubris and glibness go hand in hand.

The men in The Group behave with glibness, condescension, and even brutality toward the Vassar grads.

Nevertheless despite the glibness with which he uttered it, he cringed and a flood of telltale color rose to his hair.

Mr. Locket shot his young friend another sharp glance, a silent retort to the glibness of this information.

Then the glibness and merit of some of their answers surprised and amused him.

“Points” are given by one operator to another with the same mendacious glibness as of yore.

It certainly gives glibness and flexibility, if it doesn't give earnestness and depth.

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