Meanings
comparative more glibly · superlative most glibly
- In a glib manner.
[…] they are unconscious of all the history and human experience by which the liturgy has been enriched, and unmoved by the glibly repeated words of the Gospel […]
1916, Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Review 5 (392-409)2 more examples
"It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well."
1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLCTechnical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbwith superficial plausibility
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with glibly
All rhymes →Cite this entry
glibly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glibly
“glibly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glibly. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glibly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glibly.
Source: glibly on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.