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glibly

[ US /ˈɡɫɪbɫi/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈɪbli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. with superficial plausibility
    he talked glibly

How To Use glibly In A Sentence

  • Mr. Geary looked at her sharply, but she said the name glibly, and Marjorie at Seacote
  • But I must reiterate that I am not here speaking about what we glibly call ‘class.’
  • You're going to get a lot of guff from readers who actually follow the link to that review and see how glibly dismissive it is.
  • So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications. Murder at Bridge
  • There are simply too many unanswered questions that can't be swept under the carpet, and it's not enough to glibly claim the legal system has already ruled on these claims.
  • Complaints of attendant social breakdown, of anomie and alienation, of the dissolution of marriage and households, of the decline of religion, were commonly - and perhaps too glibly - voiced.
  • The fast shopboy whose love of fine company and high living had brought him to this pass, had shaken off the first shame that was on him, and listened eagerly to the narratives of successful vice that fell so glibly from the lips of his older companions. For the term of his natural life
  • He spoke glibly about an economic recovery just around the corner.
  • First, those who have either been conditioned out of thinking about such questions or else have glibly assimilated pat religious answers lead impoverished lives.
  • 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. Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible
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