Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a glib manner; smoothly; volubly: as, to slide glibly; to speak glibly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a glib manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a glib manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with superficial plausibility
Etymologies
- glib + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein.”
“Mr. Geary looked at her sharply, but she said the name glibly, and”
“Of all the terms glibly flung about in every debate not one has been so confused as Moral Force.”
“You quote glibly from a document you haven’t even read.”
“However, the image I felt loyal to uphold was one of Stoic indifference nuanced in places by a kind of glibly cavalier attitude.”
“Lulled by a steady inflation rate—a product of cheap Chinese goods and floods of Eastern European migrant labor—Mr. King's BOE glibly ignored manifold warning signs.”
The Wall Street Journal: Dangerous German Export Machine Needs Reverse Gear
“Shave its beard, tuck in its plaid shirt and Don't Carry It All could – and I don't say this glibly – pass for a James Blunt single.”
“Yet the bandwagon of confected patriotism rolls on, stadium flypasts are commonplace, and sport is co-opted for military purposes just as glibly as it is for political or religious ends.”
The Guardian: Wheel out a Major Dan Rooney and people on British streets would laugh
“You glibly classify them as part of the "typical household," but the average immigrant comes from a background worse than the average native.”
An Economist or a Public Intellectual?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The dry-witted conclusion drawn by the author glibly dismissed the real reason why superimposing market solutions for problems within a family is often an inefficient approach.”
Closet Your Inner Economist?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
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strangelyrouge's Words
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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yarb ...hearing us glibly sing each other's praises...
- Peter Reading, Letter in Winter, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974 Jun 22, 2008