glib in English

adjective
1
(of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow.
she was careful not to let the answer sound too glib
adjective

Use "glib" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "glib" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "glib", or refer to the context using the word "glib" in the English Dictionary.

1. He has a glib tongue.

2. We're being rather glib here.

3. It was facile and glib.

4. I don't mean to sound glib.

5. He's a glib, self-centred man.

6. The fellow has a very glib tongue.

7. She's always ready with a glib excuse.

8. The spokesman's answer was just too glib.

9. His glib talk sound as sweet as a song!

10. How could you be so glib like nothing happened?

11. His glib talk sounds as sweet as a song.

12. No one was convinced by his glib answers/explanations.

13. I never knew he had such a glib tongue.

14. Was I too glib about eternal things? ( Theodore Roethke ).

15. All of those glib egotistical talk show hosts annoy me.

16. He carried the others off their feet, glib, dexterous, voluble.

17. Nietzsche wouldn't have been so glib if he'd been prescribed melarsoprol.

18. 30 He carried the others off their feet, glib, dexterous, voluble.

19. 7 All of those glib egotistical talk show hosts annoy me.

20. CHASE: Nietzsche wouldn't have been so glib if he'd been prescribed melarsoprol.

21. During heartbreak , love is a doggerel, caustic and mocking, eloquent and glib.

22. It's funny to me, you still think glib is the way to go here.

23. This is Balde, a microframework for C based on GLib and bad intentions.

24. There is nothing glib or rhetorical about Freeman's way of expressing her beliefs.

25. It is, as the morbidly glib never tire of reminding us, as natural as life.

26. During heartbreak , love is a doggerel, caustic and mocking(sentencedict .com), eloquent and glib.

27. He was glib in tongue, lavish in promises, big in size and somewhat stupid.

28. Griffiths is glib and has a lot of superficial information on a number of subjects.

29. I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel.

30. When women do confront sexism, the glib reply is often that it is a joke.

31. 5 It is, as the morbidly glib never tire of reminding us, as natural as life.

32. It does not mean a “glib” person, that is, one who is thoughtlessly or insincerely free with words.

33. I will sing a Bawdy song, sir, because your verjuice face is melancholy, to make liquor go down glib.

34. Glib, charismatic and larger than life, Carmichael enjoyed her first 15 minutes of fame during the fuel crisis of 1974

35. It’s a divertingly funny movie, but its Breeziness can also feel overstated, at times glib and a bit of a dodge

36. 14 This is a false and counterproductive approach; it is to true open-mindedness what glib moral relativism is to genuine tolerance.

37. • This is a false and Counterproductive approach; it is to true open-mindedness what glib moral relativism is to genuine tolerance

38. Steve is annoyed and Amy furious at my glib suggestion that their late beloved Kiwi inhabits the body of a stranger cat.

39. He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence.

40. There is something far deeper to real Blarney – a wit and wisdom, a glib genius and turn-of-phrase many Irish are renowned to possess.

41. The Pantheon desktop environment is built on top of the GNOME software base, i.e. GTK+, GDK, Cairo, GLib (including GObject and GIO), GVfs and Tracker.

42. Recent Examples on the Web Rachel Poser’s recent New York Times profile of Princeton Classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta comes across as both glib and ominous

43. Ardour can be built and run on any operating system that: supports audio devices; can run JACK; provides most of the POSIX specification either directly or via glib

44. I won’t be glib or paint with a unfairly Broad brush when I am trying to talk about serious policy like immigration, or when I talk about other people

45. Then you can conveniently change the subject of a conversation by using the expression " Apropos of nothing," which is a glib way of saying, "Oh, and by the way"

46. Although all Western governments currently share Walker ' s easy accommodation and even enthusiasm for an increasingly hostile Turkey , their soothing words and glib assessments must not be allowed to conceal the dangerous developments now under way .

47. ‘Armed conflict is defined in functional terms, unlike a state of war which is triggered by a formal state of Belligerency between two states.’ ‘The whole glib tone of this, the truly jingoistic and arrogant belligerence would be totally unacceptable.’

48. ‘Casinos are designed to Bamboozle you with the sensory overload created by the flashing lights and jingles and the sound of endless coins tumbling down into a metal tray.’ ‘The slickest of these, like glib lawyers paid to advocate a poor case, are accustomed to bamboozling innocent audiences.’