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[glib] / glɪb /


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Yet when he faced questions from the media last month - for the first time in over three years - his response was, at best, glib.

From BBC Jul. 6, 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

The speakers are often ill-prepared and sometimes glib, demeaning what they should be illuminating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 2026

But my glib answer didn’t do justice to the impact the time in his office had had on me.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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 Lever, Charles James

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 Allan, Luke




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