glib
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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