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[glib] / glɪb /


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But “Miss You, Love You”—the kind of glib phone text that figures so prominently here—isn’t quite that kind of production.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 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

The former college quarterback is glib, quick on his feet and meticulously organized.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 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

But he was also disgusted with himself for being so shallow and glib.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

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

William couldna endure the cratur, and mony a sair wrangle they had wi' the tongue; but the Englishman's was by far the glibber, though William's was the weightier.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

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




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