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glibness

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glib  (glb)
adj. glib·ber, glib·best
1. Performed with a natural, offhand ease: was fascinated by his unfailingly glib conversation.
2. Characterized by fluency of speech or writing that often suggests insincerity, superficiality, or a lack of concern.
[Possibly of Low German origin; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
glibly adv.
glibness n.
Synonyms: glib, slick, smooth-tongued
These adjectives mean being, marked by, or engaging in ready but often insincere or superficial discourse: a glib denial; a slick commercial; a smooth-tongued hypocrite.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.glibness - a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman"
slickness
shallowness, superficiality - lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
Translations
glibness [ˈglɪbnɪs] N [of person] → labia f, falta f de sinceridad; [of explanation, excuse] → facilidad f
glibness
n (of person) → Zungenfertigkeit f; (of reply, excuse, lie) → Leichtzüngigkeit f; a remark of such glibness → eine so leichtzüngige Bemerkung


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He was in the prime of life, but very bald--had been in the army and the coal trade--wore very stiff collars and prodigiously long wristbands--seldom laughed, but talked with remarkable glibness, and was never known to lose his temper under the most aggravating circumstances of prison existence.
A Rogue's Life by Collins, Wilkie View in context
There's a patent case coming up before the Supreme Court--" He gave the name of the inventor, and went on furnishing details with all Lawrence Lefferts's practised glibness, while she listened attentively, saying at intervals: "Yes, I see.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
Keck, the editor of the "Trumpet," in asserting that Ladislaw, if the truth were known, was not only a Polish emissary but crack-brained, which accounted for the preternatural quickness and glibness of his speech when he got on to a platform--as he did whenever he had an opportunity, speaking with a facility which cast reflections on solid Englishmen generally.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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