(superl.) Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
(v. t.) To make glib.
(n.) A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
(v. t.) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(2) Niven found himself disturbed by some glib answers from Salmond, but he’s still swithering.
(3) In excerpts of these videos I am shown making a series of glib, thoughtless and sometimes downright insulting comments”, Gruber told the committee.
(4) I no longer want to vote for glib promises that are abandoned the day after an election; I want to vote on specific issues.
(5) "Would all these girls," he asks, with a sorrow that defies any glib, one-should-be-so-lucky retort, "be fucking me if they weren't getting paid?"
(6) UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: “We must move beyond glib and superficial analysis of youth unemployment and its causes if we are to give the next generation a real chance in life.
(7) Rolling news and the internet favour glib commentary over serious journalism.
(8) Coleridge, denouncing “a contemptible democratical oligarchy of glib economists”, asked: “Is the increasing number of wealthy individuals that which ought to be understood by the wealth of the nation?” Dickens did much with Carlyle’s despairing insight into cash payment as the “sole nexus” between human beings.
(9) Above all, more must be done to make sure the destination after school is not into Neet status – now a rather glib term that hides a range of problems that stretch far into a young person's future, not least in future lost earnings.
(10) Salmond’s reminiscences about each were more than mere glib anecdotes of a statesman eager to convey something of the circles in which he moved.
(11) While I'm in no position to understand the genuine motives of thousands of women (Facebook memes do have a habit of indirectly bullying people into appearing worthy), the effect of such mass and glib support was not greeted with enthusiasm by all those more directly affected by cancer.
(12) I mean, I think in this world, the more communication we have, the more people tend to be glib, and arch, and Hank could never do that.
(13) Kezia Dugdale and Ken Macintosh ought to bear all this in mind as they resist moves to decouple from the Westminster party, save for the glib assertion that they will seek more autonomy (whatever that’s supposed to mean).
(14) There are glib and sometimes foolish comparisons with the 1930s.
(15) It’s as if she’s forgotten that the emotions that were galvanised were because everyone despised her for being so glib.
(16) "I have political issues with the idea of speaking about [art] in relation to the revolution in general," said Hassan Khan, who said it was glib to map artistic progression to the contours of a political event that was still very much in flux.
(17) And I think when you’re the kid in that situation, it’s really easy to be glib and just want your parents to catch up to who you’re turning yourself into.
(18) It is a glib analogy that bestows on Eritrea an aura of mystery that is neither desired nor deserved, and not only because the country poses no nuclear threat.
(19) Clegg was just glib and irrelevant, acting as if he’d been in opposition for the last five years rather than in government.
(20) Despite all that, we remain mostly ill-equipped to talk about the realities of the disease; our formulas seem paltry or glib.
Glibly
Definition:
(adv.) In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Skylight review – Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love | Michael Billington Read more Commentators write glibly about the public’s increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians’ growing contempt for us.
(2) This throwing of things glibly open to one member, one vote is a disaster.
(3) Asked by a member of the audience how he had handled rehearsals for a group of actors that includes Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck and Precious's Gabourey Sidibe , Ratner responded glibly: "Rehearsal?
(4) It is hard to escape the conclusion that the FA makes life unnecessarily difficult for itself when it glibly states that it wants the best man for the job regardless of nationality.
(5) Look at Iowa, glibly characterised as reactionary but which "had all these splendid deep impulses in its legal system that just sort of got papered over".
(6) Comparisons with Hitler and Mussolini have been made so often and so glibly that they tend to obscure rather than clarify.
(7) Stoate, the former MP for Dartford, writes in the Guardian that doctors do not "glibly accept every aspect of the health bill; it clearly has many inherent problems".
(8) The final, stunning plank in the trinity of Lithuanian exercises in Soviet memory is Grutas Park , known slightly glibly to some as "Stalin's World".
(9) This does not mean we glibly accept every aspect of the health bill; it clearly has many inherent problems.
(10) In three days, she will be presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace and later meet Prince Charles, not as the submissive consort that some glibly predicted, but as an equal partner of her husband, Bashar.
(11) Only last week he upbraided the comedian and actor, Russell Brand (video) on air for admitting that he has never voted and glibly predicting a revolution ("it is totally going to happen").
(12) You have to acknowledge the responsibility – that if you're going to go into a serious area you're not going to do it glibly."
(13) Tobacco has been glibly referred to as a form of revenge by native Indians.
(14) But this mutual shyness helps, allowing McGrath to ease himself into talking deeply rather than rattling through a list of questions which want him to explain glibly how an illustrious career, culminating in two World Cup finals tournaments for the Republic of Ireland and the 1993 PFA Player of the Year award, was framed by alcoholism, two divorces and four attempts to end his life.
(15) We live in a liberal democracy, but, with recent lurches to the right, here and abroad, you don't need to be Philip K Dick to imagine the information you gave up so glibly being used against you by a Farage-led dictatorship.
(16) Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders , to give them their full, glibly Orwellian name, are public-private partnerships in a selection of cities and conurbations from Birmingham northwards, which entailed the demolition and – in theory – replacement of housing in working-class areas.
(17) The market is under review by the Competition Commission, but Hastings, if a little glibly, believes he can muscle his way in with the power of money.
(18) Consider the following positions, towards which most glibly segue.
(19) Ashworth added: “Instead, Mr Hunt glibly told parliament that ‘some correspondence in the mail redirection service has not reached the intended recipients’.
(20) That is why I was very surprised to read about a survey conducted by Radio 4’s The Human Zoo , which found a large number of people are disheartened by the present and view their past with a nostalgia that glibly tries to defy the scrutiny of history’s rough edges.