Examples of glib in a Sentence
Joe Queenan, New York Times Book Review, 3 June 2007
The problem was that the candidate anticipated all the questions, knew all the answers and tended to pop out the reply the moment the question was asked; it made him seem like a smart aleck, too glib.
—William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 16 June 1991
Some of the glibbest persons in the nation are oddly tongue-tied when the Bible is brought up.
—Garry Wills, Under God, 1990
I expected a glib ladies' man, which he's not. He is an introspective man with deep emotions.
—Loni Anderson, quoted in People Weekly, 6 Nov. 1989
Politicians need to do more than provide glib answers to difficult questions.
the actor's glib portrayal of a drug addict
Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
This is not meant to be glib, or not really; there was true mastery in the act, utter focus and kinetic intuition.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
No one believes Carrie Bradshaw, typing glib questions into Word docs, surrounded by $800 shoes in a million-dollar apartment, leads the life of a typical columnist.
—TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
Chance’s glib vouching for Legend threw his fellow coaches for a loop.
—USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
The demonstration in Fort Lauderdale was emblematic of the kind of congressman Gaetz would be: showy, glib, and relentlessly antagonistic to institutional norms.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Set in the Cloudy Falls residence, a run-down apartment complex in Niagara Falls that seems destined to be torn down, the film tells the story of a handful of its tenants, chosen at random by the narrator, Rita (Susan Berger), the building’s glib superintendent.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
Emmerich’s bombastic approach to destruction renders the action glib and meaningless.
—Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
And indeed, behind the bright headlines the economic landscape also warns against a too glib dismissal of future economic trouble.
—Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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Word History
probably modification of Low German glibberig slippery
1584, in the meaning defined at sense 1b
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