glib

Speech parts

1. glib - Noun

2. glib - Adjective

3. glib - Verb

5. glib - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.

To make glib.

A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.

To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

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"Sunlight's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose. R. S. Thomas

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it. Aleister Crowley

I can be glib and truthful all at once. Richard Russo

I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair. Brooke Burns

The fox and the girls have the same mind, the fox has cunning eyes and the girls glib tongues. Finnish Proverb

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