Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a glib manner; smoothly; volubly: as, to slide glibly; to speak glibly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a glib manner.
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- adverb In a
glib manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with superficial plausibility
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein.
Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible Jason Linkins 2011
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In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein.
Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible Jason Linkins 2011
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In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein.
Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible Jason Linkins 2011
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In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein.
Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible Jason Linkins 2011
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In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein.
Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible Jason Linkins 2011
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Mr. Geary looked at her sharply, but she said the name glibly, and
Marjorie at Seacote Carolyn Wells 1902
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Of all the terms glibly flung about in every debate not one has been so confused as Moral Force.
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You quote glibly from a document you haven’t even read.
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However, the image I felt loyal to uphold was one of Stoic indifference nuanced in places by a kind of glibly cavalier attitude.
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Lulled by a steady inflation rate—a product of cheap Chinese goods and floods of Eastern European migrant labor—Mr. King's BOE glibly ignored manifold warning signs.
Dangerous German Export Machine Needs Reverse Gear Alen Mattich 2011
yarb commented on the word glibly
...hearing us glibly sing each other's praises...
- Peter Reading, Letter in Winter, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008