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The words of global partnerships were hollow, the partnerships themselves glib, corrupted by greed and selfishness — and they remained fundamentally imbalanced.
BARBADOS RESISTS CLIMATE COLONIALISM IN AN EFFORT TO SURVIVE THE COSTS OF GLOBAL WARMINGBY ABRAHM LUSTGARTENJULY 27, 2022PROPUBLICA
I became more careful about how I wrote the violence, knowing that while I could still be realistic, what I must never be is glib.
DON WINSLOW: THE COMPLICATED ETHICS OF WRITING VIOLENCE IN FICTIONDON WINSLOWAPRIL 27, 2022TIME
The frankly strange thing about this is that, to be glib about it, they should be smarter than this.
PUTIN’S BAFFLING WAR STRATEGYELLEN IOANESFEBRUARY 27, 2022VOX
When all this was initially pitched to me by an especially glib PR guy, I was skeptical.
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Rogen and his collaborators would not have been wrong to fear a backlash to a lighter, more glib depiction of Anderson’s ordeal.
HULU'S ABYSMAL PAM & TOMMY IS AT ITS WORST WHEN PAYING LIP SERVICE TO FEMINISMJUDY BERMANJANUARY 26, 2022TIME
“The glib answer that I tell people,” she said, “is that there had to be more to life than selling toilet paper, and perhaps marketing women’s sports had to be a more fulfilling career.”
TWO WOMEN MAKE HISTORY AS CHAIR, VICE CHAIR OF NCAA’S FOOTBALL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEECHUCK CULPEPPERSEPTEMBER 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST
I don’t want to sound too glib here—there’s still privilege inherent in my situation.
EMBRACE YOUR INNER DIRTBAGJVERSTEEGHJULY 13, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINE
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
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WORDS RELATED TO GLIB

  • articulate
  • big-mouthed
  • chattering
  • chatty
  • effusive
  • eloquent
  • fluent
  • full of hot air
  • gabby
  • garrulous
  • glib
  • gossipy
  • long-winded
  • loose-lipped
  • loquacious
  • loudmouthed
  • mouthy
  • multiloquent
  • prolix
  • rattling
  • slick
  • smooth
  • talky
  • verbal
  • verbose
  • vocal
  • voluble
  • windy
  • wordy
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