(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.
Glim
Definition:
(n.) Brightness; splendor.
(n.) A light or candle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The generalized linear interactive modeling (GLIM) technique used at TRRL has stricter assumptions, but is better suited for model testing.
(2) In this analysis, poisson regression models were fit using the statistical program GLIM (Generalized Linear Models) to determine the separate effects of age, period of death, and birth cohort on the specific cancers of interest (lung, liver, bladder, CNS, leukemia, lympho-reticulosarcoma, all cancers).
(3) This paper presents a simple Statistical Analysis System (SAS) program for the generation of such data in a form that can be read directly by GLIM and used in a Poisson regression analysis.
(4) The models were fitted by the GLIM system assuming a Poisson error function.
(5) The necessary calculations are easily performed in the statistical computer program package GLIM, and the necessary commands are noted.
(6) The spreading behavior of adherent platelets was analyzed using generalized linear interactive modeling (GLIM).
(7) Analysis of screen-detected and interval cancer data by means of statistical modelling using GLIM allowed us to estimate the mean sojourn time (1.91 and 3.97 years in 40-49 and 50-69 year old women respectively), sensitivity (about 90% for those aged 50-69) and predictive value at the prevalence screening test (about 100%).
(8) To this end, loglineal (Poisson regression) models were constructed of the IC mortality rates for both sexes, using the GLIM package, in which the regression coefficients are the natural Relative Risk (RR) logarithms of the various age groups (35-74 years), period of death (1970-1985) and birth cohort (1985-1960) with respect to the reference group mortality, controlled by the effect of other groups.
(9) Variable results on a particular bioassay exhibited by extracts from different colonies of a given species were analysed by the Generalized Linear Interactive Modelling system (GLIM).
(10) In particular, it is argued that classical methods as implemented in the computer package GLIM can be used as approximations to Bayesian methods, particularly at the initial stage of model selection.
(11) The bootstrap can be used in many statistical packages such as MINITAB, SPSS, SAS, BMDP, or GLIM, all of which are widely available, and could be useful in other areas of the pharmaceutical sciences where regression analysis is employed.
(12) In this report we present an accurate statistical approach using the Generalized Linear Interactive Modeling (GLIM) computer package developed by the Numerical Algorithms Group, Oxford, U.K.
(13) A piecewise exponential model is used to model relative risks of delivery associated with a previous spontaneous abortion and a model incorporating digit preference is fitted as a generalized bilinear model in GLIM.
(14) A log linear model was fitted using GLIM, assuming Poisson errors in incidence; linear and non-linear regression techniques were also used.
(15) Data on cycles to pregnancy can be used to estimate the beta parameters by maximum likelihood in a straightforward manner with a package such as GLIM.
(16) In this form, convergence to the least-squares estimates using the Gauss-Newton method [see Kennedy & Gentle (1980) Statistical Computing, Marcel Dekker, New York] is virtually ensured, or, as the model in this form is a member of the class of 'generalized linear models', it may be fitted by packages such as those of Rothamsted Experimental Station [(1977) GENSTAT (A General Statistical Program), Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden] and the Numerical Algorithms Group [(1978) GLIM (Generalised Linear Interactive Modeling), Numerical Algorithms Group, Oxford].
(17) As the two groups were not balanced despite randomization, multivariate methods (GLIM) were used to identify significant prognostic factors.
(18) A generalized log linear model was fitted to the data using the statistical package GLIM, confirming a significant trend for labelled cells to occupy higher sites in the oxyntic gland as the time since labelling of cells increased.
(19) A method, using the GLIM computer package, for determining primary and secondary HLA associations with disease is described and is applied to data from patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
(20) The statistical significance of temporal, age, sex, and seasonal variations in incidence rates was ascertained by Poisson regression models (GLIM statistical software).