Definitions for glib

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Spelling: [glib]
IPA: /glɪb/

Glib is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in glib (bgil).

Definitions for glib

adjective

  1. readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so:
  2. easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners.
  3. Archaic. agile; spry.

Origin of glib

1585-95; compare obsolete glibbery slippery (cognate with Dutch glibberig)

Examples for glib

Debate, as we saw last Wednesday night, sometimes over-rewards the glib one-liner, or incentivizes stubborn misrepresentation.

But this cynical take is too glib and sweeping to explain everything.

There are questions that the glib unbeliever may ask that we can not answer.

His glib, even slick performance may score with debate coaches but the American people may not be similarly wowed.

“We should not let people get away with this glib excuse that this is about voter fraud,” says Ornstein.

She evidently did not relish his glib talk about the university.

Truth in Advertising balances the droll with the hopeful and the glib with the heartfelt.

In the most perfunctory and glib manner I gave the Royal Toast.

But he did not look as if the message was one which he could deliver with a glib tongue.

By that most glib and specious explanation Cynthia was convinced.

Word Value for glib
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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