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/ɡlɪb/ · adjective
Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow..
A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin.
a sheet of glib ice
a glib tongue; a glib speech
I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.
Sometimes our relationship is strained, for though we both recognize each other's intelligence, he think's I'm often too serious and I think he's often too glib
Its style is both open and arch, never verging on glib camp but always a little removed, reducing large emotions to small observations and thereby making them all the more effective.
When Mr. Franco called Mr. McCarthy and asked why he had written a book about such a repellent character, he was glib. "He said, verbatim, 'I don't know, James, probably some dumb-ass reason,'" Mr. Franco recalled.
1628, Joseph Hal, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8iUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue; which, being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through heaven and earth; and spares neither him that is God above, nor those which are called gods on earth.
Use glib when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glib means Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow..
Common synonyms include facile, suave, dubber, superficial.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin.
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