How to Use glib in a Sentence

glib

adjective
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  • Politicians need to do more than provide glib answers to difficult questions.
  • There will be pain, and no one should be glib about that.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • And, contrary to glib forecasts, Biden rose in the polls.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The short and glib answer is that this chart is climate change.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
  • But the whole film remains a bit too glib and smug anyway.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Your very glib response is part of the problem, in my opinion.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2021
  • But a lot of this talk of a global Britain is very glib, not very substantial, and needs to be filled out.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The emphasis clearly is on fun, with a lighter, more glib tone being the order of the day.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • But watch him long enough and what becomes clear is that Joe Pera isn’t after glib laughs.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Elvis had enough wattage to light up the Vegas strip, and so does Baz Luhrmann’s flashy, glib musical biopic.
    — Katie Rife, Vulture, 24 June 2022
  • The analogies between Covid-19 and Peloton aren’t glib.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Yet Reno is rather glib about the achievements of the post-war consensus and the dangers of upsetting it.
    — Samuel Goldman, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • DeVos smiled and gave glib and at times false statements during the segment.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 12 Mar. 2018
  • His writing bears no hint of the glib snark of the Marvel machine, no stray traces of Whedonese.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 13 Dec. 2022
  • And the format can produce commentary that’s too glib by half.
    — The Hive, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Benny is a funny, glib knock-around guy who’s looking to stay away from drugs in the joint and earn a college degree.
    — John J. Lennon, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The climax is both pleasing and glib in tying knots, as well as loose ends, and closing circles.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • The glib and easy use of the term can also lead to nauseating self-righteousness.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Mulkey is famously glib and surely doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her wardrobe.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Buried in the 2006 Newsweek article is a glib definition of the ‘id’ that today reads like a portent.
    — Warren Breckman, New Republic, 1 June 2017
  • Two monologues about grief, Sea Wall / A Life, end up being a couple of glib gestures in the direction of loss.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Alan Ruck, who plays Connor with gross entitlement and glib self-delusion, can’t help but feel the sting.
    — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Chance’s glib vouching for Legend threw his fellow coaches for a loop.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The edits are more dramatic than the glib story’s outcome.
    — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 16 June 2017
  • Bit comes from a family of Maryland country crackers, there’s also a lot of grit on that glib tongue of hers.
    — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 20 Apr. 2022
  • But for the most part, the project shows a new maturity, avoiding the glib facetiousness and tricksy plotting that have so often been part of the Ritchie stamp.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023
  • During the company’s earlier days, the trolling and glib comments were a feature, not a bug.
    — Kyle Stock, Fortune, 30 July 2022
  • The satire of bourgeois affluence can seem glib and overextended.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • The show effectively whittles the Parisian lifestyle to a glib rotation of patisseries and soirees, a beige blanket over the city.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Advertisement Armour, an expert in tort law, said the idea that safety was the sole criterion was exasperating and glib.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024

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