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Overly glib or sarcastic messages can get you into trouble, even if they are funny, reckons Paul Fitzsimmons, head of sales and marketing at law firm Wilford Smith.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

We may get lost in the glib language of “exploits” and “zero-day vulnerabilities.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

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 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

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

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