glibly

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Never was a term more glibly used and misdefined as that one has been lately.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

"I suppose we might glibly talk about transplants, but to know somebody has benefited from it to that degree does make it real and important."

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

In 1955, Chamberlin is glibly naïve about the Holocaust, a patriotic fool set up for tears when remembering the horrors of the Nazis.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

One should be skeptical of all this, of course, and not just because Yiannopoulos still appears to be married to a man, glibly telling reporters that his husband has been "demoted to a roommate."

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2022

Malcolm had said glibly to Alice that it would be easy to find him, but would it really?

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman