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glibly

Adverb

Meaning

In a glib manner; as, to speak glibly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. Marie de France

I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed. Tucker Carlson

We speak glibly of conservation education, but what do we mean by it? If we mean indoctrination, then let us be reminded that it is just as easy to indoctrinate with fallacies as with facts. If we mean to teach the capacity for independent judgement, then I am appalled by the magnitude of the task. Aldo Leopold

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness. Virginia Woolf

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated. Julian Barnes

There are, of course, good happy endings as well as bad ones, but surely they are of a kind that in some way expresses happiness rather than glibly promises it. Louis Kronenberger

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