glib
adjective/ɡlɪb/
/ɡlɪb/
(disapproving)- (of speakers and speech) using words that are clever, but are not sincere, and do not show much thought
- a glib salesman
- glib answers
- He had assumed that his glib explanations would convince us.
- It would be glib to suggest that she did it deliberately.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (also in the sense ‘smooth, unimpeded’): ultimately of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ‘slippery’ and German glibberig ‘slimy’.
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