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She was very glib with the sheep and the geese, but the grindstone made her head ache, and she gave it up.
THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMES
Another man glib of tongue and crafty of brain might have lied his way out of an abominable situation.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKE
The glib story of the bribery was like the bite of a slipping crane-hitch—slow to take hold.
THE WRECKERSFRANCIS LYNDE
“Never since sun-birth,” Hildebrand responded, with glib emphasis.
THE PROUD PRINCEJUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY
"Because you are free: you do not love," impetuously returned the other with glib, persistent vehemence.
SIX WOMENVICTORIA CROSS
Glib talk often commands an undeserved confidence and misleads the wage earner.
A HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATESSELIG PERLMAN
How welcome, in the murky puddle of Dryasdust, is any glimpse by a lively glib Wilhelmina, which we can discern to be human!
Morel sat all the time smoking his thick twist tobacco, watching her, and listening to her glib London speech, as he puffed.
SONS AND LOVERSDAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
The friends that harm us are plausible friends, friends that like to flatter, and friends with a glib tongue.
THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUSCONFUCIUS
Banish the strains of Cheng and flee men that are glib; for the strains of Cheng are wanton and glib speakers are dangerous.
THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUSCONFUCIUS
WORDS RELATED TO GLIB
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
- affecting
- ardent
- articulate
- expressive
- facund
- fervent
- fervid
- fluent
- forceful
- glib
- grandiloquent
- graphic
- impassioned
- impressive
- indicative
- magniloquent
- meaningful
- moving
- outspoken
- passionate
- persuasive
- poignant
- potent
- powerful
- revealing
- rhetorical
- sententious
- significant
- silver-tongued
- smooth-spoken
- stirring
- suggestive
- telling
- touching
- vivid
- vocal
- voluble
- well-expressed
- adulatory
- bombastic
- buttery
- canting
- cloying
- coarse
- extravagant
- fawning
- flattering
- glib
- grandiloquent
- hypocritical
- immoderate
- ingratiating
- inordinate
- insincere
- magniloquent
- mealy-mouthed
- nauseating
- offensive
- oily
- oleaginous
- overdone
- saccharine
- sanctimonious
- slick
- slimy
- smarmy
- smooth
- suave
- sycophantic
- unctuous
- wheedling
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