glib

[ glib ]

/ glɪb /

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adjective, glib·ber, glib·best.

readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.

easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners.

Archaic. agile; spry.

Words nearby glib

gley, glia, glia cell, gliadin, glial cell, glib, glib ice, glidden, glide, glide path, glide plane

Origin of glib

1585–95; compare obsolete glibbery slippery (cognate with Dutch glibberig)

SYNONYMS FOR glib

1 talkative, loquacious; facile, smooth. See fluent.

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OTHER WORDS FROM glib

glib·ly, adverbglib·ness, nounun·glib, adjectiveun·glib·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for glibness

Seeing it written down, it looks dangerously close to glibness.
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Then as now, inside the Washington Beltway hubris and glibness go hand in hand.
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The men in The Group behave with glibness, condescension, and even brutality toward the Vassar grads.
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Mr. Locket shot his young friend another sharp glance, a silent retort to the glibness of this information.
The Real Thing and Other Tales|Henry James

His very lack of glibness, the things in him wanting expression and not getting expressed, made him seem like one of them.
Marching Men|Sherwood Anderson
He disliked the squalor of the political game and the glibness of tongue and tenuity of thought of the mere politician.
War Letters of a Public-School Boy|Paul Jones.
But here again one is annoyed by the glibness with which Mr. Strachey smoothly asserts what are only his conjectures.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters|Edmund William Gosse
Nevertheless despite the glibness with which he uttered it, he cringed and a flood of telltale color rose to his hair.
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British Dictionary definitions for glibness

glib

/ (ɡlɪb) /

adjective glibber or glibbest

fluent and easy, often in an insincere or deceptive way

Derived forms of glib

glibly, adverbglibness, noun

Word Origin for glib

C16: probably from Middle Low German glibberich slippery

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glib

adjective, glib·ber, glib·best.

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adjective glibber or glibbest

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