glibly

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/ˈɡlɪbli/

adverb

In a glib manner.

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adverbglibly (comparative more glibly, superlative most glibly)

comparative more glibly · superlative most glibly

  1. 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)
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    "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, →OCLC

    Technical 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

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