glad-handed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of glad-hand

comparative more glad-handed · superlative most glad-handed

1. Superficially friendly.

   In wading through the mire of an era whose inmates have tired of supposed Enlightenment and loiter at the gates of the Dark, we should not be too glad-handed with the pearls of faith...

   2014, J. Budziszewski, The Line through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction, →ISBN

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   ...his niggardly back-slapping coupled with an antediluvian crew-cut and a predilection for starched, razor-sharp creased shirts and spit-shined shoes only confirmed the prejudices of the glad-handed, button-down collared, slicked-back hair crowd-his benefactors, sponsors.

   2011, Tony De Vita, The Pointy House Murders, →ISBN

   Since Thelonius's arrest, Keith had been doing the right thing, making regular and glad-handed visits to Lilette and the kids, and he could all too easily see himself developing an obligation there

   2010, Martin Amis, London Fields, →ISBN, page 334