glib
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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
Mr. Moore, who surveys various financial anecdotes from American history, can be glib and superficial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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
“Oh, a couple of hundred,” came the glib reply.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
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
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
The other two, maintaining their usual expression of phlegmatic and stubborn sullenness, left the delivery of their message to him, the glibbest talker.
From The Return of Blue Pete by Luke Allan
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