glibness

glib (gl

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.

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Noun

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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easiness easy flippancy fluency glib shallowness slickness Smoothness soft-spoken superficiality Talkativeness	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	Glenn Curtiss Glenn Hammond Curtiss Glenn Miller Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg Glennie glenoid glenoid cavity glenoid fossa Glenoidal Glenrothes Glent Glenview Gleucometer Glew gley glia gliadin glial glial cell glib glib ice glib-tongued Glibbery glibly glibness Glicke Glidden Glidder glide glide bomb glide by glide mode glide path Glide slope glide time glide-bomb Gliden glider gliding Gliding angle gliding bacteria gliding joint Gliding machine Glidingly Gliff Glike glim glimmer Glimmer gowk glimmering	Glial Growth Factor Prepared from Bovine Pituitaries Glial Growth Factor-2 Glial Hyaluronic Acid Binding Protein Glial Intermediate Filament Proteins glial limitans glial limitans glial nodule glial nodule glial shrubbery glial shrubbery glial tumor Glial-cAMP Glial-Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor GLIAS GLIAT glib glib glib ice glib-tongued GLIBAD glibber Glibbery glibbest Glibc Glibc Glibenclamide Glibenclamide Glibenese Glibenese glibly glibness Glic GLICA GLICCC glicentin Glicentin-Related Pancreatic Peptide Glicerin Glicerin Glicerin Glich Glich Glick, George Washington Glicke Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute Gliclazide GLICS GLID Glidden Glidden Company Glidden, Joseph Glidder glide glide glide glide glide Glide (linguistics) glide across Glide Angle Glide Angle Glide Angle Indicator Light

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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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