glib

The glib response to someone griping about his job is, “Well, it’s not coal mining!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

We may get lost in the glib language of “exploits” and “zero-day vulnerabilities.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

Mr. Buruma resists glib post hoc censure, acknowledging that German civilians “lived in constant fear of their own government.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Jonah thought maybe Chip was trying to sound like the donkey from Shrek—carefree, glib, and full of wisecracks even in the face of danger.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

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

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

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

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

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

The glibbest was Hesketh Pearson's quick look at Disraeli in Dizzy.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a talker he is unequalled, and in this long-eared age, when the glibbest gabbler is reckoned the greatest man, his agitators have floated to the front.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Robert John Buckley