Glib

[glib]

A hiring manager might think you're being glib, or slick and insincere, if you say you've led a successful multinational corporation when you were actually in charge of flipping burgers for a fast food restaurant chain.

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Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

Adjective S.
artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-tongued hypocrite"

Adjective S.
having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"

Adjective S.
marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"

superl.
Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

superl.
Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.

v. t.
To make glib.

n.
A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.

v. t.
To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Glib

Glib , a. [Compar. Glibber ; superl. Glibbest .] [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.] 1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.] 2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.
Syn. -- Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.

Glib

Glib, v. t. To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Glib

Glib, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]
The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.

Glib

Glib, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.

Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

To make glib.

A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.

To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

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Usage Examples

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

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