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glibly

/glib/US // glɪb //UK // (ɡlɪb) //

侃侃而谈,巧舌如簧,巧言令色,巧舌如簧地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    glib·ber, glib·best.

    • : readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
    • : easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners.
    • : Archaic. agile; spry.

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Examples

  • So he refuses to speak glibly about using force against Iran the same way he refused to endorse war with Iraq.

  • They point to the dangers of obvious demographic changes under occupation; some even speak glibly of an emerging theocracy.

  • One cannot speak glibly of “policy differences” and “looking forward” and “distraction” when corpses are involved.

  • But such a thing had, nevertheless, come quite glibly out of her mouth, and she knew not why.

  • Barrington thanked him, he could do no less, yet he felt little trust in a man who could confess so glibly to treachery.

  • The design he talks so glibly about is in him, not outside of him.

  • I can see that it really is a very fair article, but do not detect the extraordinary excellencies so glibly described.

  • "Oh—er—for a little while," said Mr. Milburgh glibly, trying to remember what he had heard about Sam Stay.