glib
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And you don’t want to be frivolous about it, you don’t want to be glib about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Of Filmer’s theory of “patriarchal monarchy,” Locke opined that “there was never so much glib nonsense put together in well-sounding English.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
"It's very easy to put out glib soundbites - end leasehold - we've got a serious policy programme here," he added.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
So for his children not to show up in any way, and to be glib about his experience, is, well, a choice.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026
I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
The comic is rife with details that will be familiar to even the most casual admirers of older, glibber incarnations of the Flintstones.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2017
Kaye is not naturally funny but more of a stunt-man of humor who relies on glib footwork, a glibber tongue and a foxy aptitude for facial contortions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Children of the U. S. can count glibly, "five pennies are a nickel, two nickels are a dime;" but children of the Irish Free State must become even glibber.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't say I became glib at this juncture, but I certainly became a dashed glibber than I had been.
From Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
An't she glibber to move nor a wag of a comet's tail, when he 's taking a lark round the moon?
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
Raftery is one of TV sport’s glibbest analysts and there are dictionaries to explain his catchphrases.
From Washington Times ● May 19, 2017
That essay—by far the glibbest text I've ever written—chided American diplomats for not exploiting the immense digital soft power that a company like Amazon had to offer.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2012
And her gravelly, skeptical voice lends conviction to even the glibbest one-liners.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2010
A gathering of the best and the glibbest from 20 colleges?
From Time Magazine Archive
I was supposed to be the glibbest of speech of our party, and up I got.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow
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