glib
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A shortening of either obsolete English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
Inflected forms:
form: glibber
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: glibbest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: glibs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glibbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glibbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glibbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
pos: adj
examples: glib anwers
A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin.
As history is raided, indeed raped, by identitarians and populists, glib judgments on the past become fodder for every tribal grievance.
Rather than elevating the prose, the rhymes feel glib and the sentiment vague, shorthand for an unspecified intensity: “They wanted things they couldn’t name; they wanted rest. They wanted change.”
gloss: Smooth or slippery.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: a sheet of glib ice
gloss: Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
pos: adj
examples: a glib tongue
a glib speech
a glib politician
I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.
"We are concerned that both the ITC and Ofcom appear to have accepted this glib attempt at justification. We are far from reassured in respect of programming for the Meridian region and for the ITV network, and believe that Ofcom should be much more vigilant on this issue.
“We see the UK government talking about having victims’ voices heard,” said [Sienna] Merope-Synge. “They have talked about the need for zero tolerance and about leadership. But there are a whole bunch of victims of UN abuse who perceive the UK as very glib about supporting victims.”
gloss: Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
pos: adj
examples: Sometimes our relationship is strained, for though we both recognize each other's intelligence, he think's I'm often too serious and I think he's often too glib
Its style is both open and arch, never verging on glib camp but always a little removed, reducing large emotions to small observations and thereby making them all the more effective.
When Mr. Franco called Mr. McCarthy and asked why he had written a book about such a repellent character, he was glib. "He said, verbatim, 'I don't know, James, probably some dumb-ass reason,'" Mr. Franco recalled.
gloss: To make smooth or slippery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1628, Joseph Hal, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8iUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue; which, being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through heaven and earth; and spares neither him that is God above, nor those which are called gods on earth.
And, when to all his Angels he propos'd / To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud, / That he might fall in Ramoth, they demurring, / I undertook that office, and the tongues / Of all his flattering Prophets glibb'd with lyes / To his destruction, as I had in charge.
They are good internally in Fits of the Stone in the Kidneys, by glibbing the Ureters, and making even a large Stone pass with ease […]
We were having one of our bitterest cold snaps. Wind due north, shrieking over stiff land; two feet of snow, all substances glibbed with ice and granite-hard.
Derived words: glibertarian
glibly
glibness
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