(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.
Levity
Definition:
(n.) Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.
(n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity.
(n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Penetration will only occur once you have established a sense of levity, safety and trust between the both of you, plus a high level of non-penetrative eroticism.
(2) He’s similar in that sense to his icon Dizzee, who was always happy to balance his weightier stuff with moments of levity.
(3) Niemeyer’s buildings are characterised by their levity, playfulness, and curves, which are all antithetical to brutalism.
(4) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
(5) There was more levity in a panel for the unlikely hit political drama Borgen about the intricacies of Danish coalition government, which brought together actors Sidse Babett Knudsen and Pilou Asbaek - who played prime minister Birgitte Nyborg and her spin doctor Kasper Juul.
(6) In Ferguson last summer, there wasn’t much levity in the days after Mike Brown was killed, either.
(7) In this spirit, Formation compels its viewers to acknowledge the beautiful complexity of history, culture and customs, with levity and passion.
(8) Perhaps he was a children's entertainer whom Ivan the Terrible enlisted in a rare moment of levity.
(9) They wanted someone associated with April who could inject a little humour and levity, not in a farcical way but in a real way.
(10) With One Love, Grande rose to the occasion with heart, strength and moments of out-of-body levity that can only come from a big pop show.
(11) H ow paranoid were you before you made this movie and how paranoid are you now?” That question was perhaps the only moment of levity during a conversation with documentarian Alex Gibney after the credits rolled on Zero Days, a terrifying account of the cyberwar that is already raging on thumb drives and mainframes from Washington to Tel Aviv to Isfahan Province in Iran and anywhere else that can connect to the internet.
(12) Klopp clearly enjoyed himself on the touchline in the closing stages and he brought a degree of levity into his post-match press conference, even offering up a suggestion for the top of journalists’ pieces.
(13) In a rare moment of levity during Hunt's testimony, the culture secretary was asked about an evening reception and dinner with James Murdoch where he was said to have hidden behind a tree to avoid being seen by the Wall Street Journal's Iain Martin.
(14) This was significant and, at the time, outrageous – in 1969, it must have seemed that seriousness had won out for good, with levity confined to novelty singles and bubblegum.
(15) The archaic levity tells you much about the debate, which, apart from the sponsor's opening remarks and contribution from another women in the chamber – the film-maker Baroness (Beeban) Kidron – did not even come close to articulating the change that has occurred since Tim Berners-Lee delivered his paper on a distributed hypertext system to his boss at CERN in March 1989.
(16) "I didn't want to have sex," says Geimer with brittle levity.
(17) There are moments of levity: when Bill Lincoln is giving evidence about his alibi (buying fish at Billingsgate market on Good Friday), it transpires that he is known by friends as “Billy the Fish”; James Creighton, the mate he meets when he has his regular Turkish bath, and who gives evidence on his behalf, is known as “Jimmy Two Baths”.
(18) They have even invented an alter ego band named The Reflektors, in which they perform wearing giant papier-mache heads of themselves, to add to the levity, and perhaps also to relieve the weight of what it means to be one of the world's biggest bands.
(19) He has been chairing the weekly political debates since 1994, often injecting the proceedings with some much-needed levity, and has become synonymous with the programme, ignoring constant speculation about when he might retire, and who might replace him.
(20) I said I liked it for its conceptual cheekiness – there can be no politics without quixotic energy and levity.