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adjective

glib

fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow

In a sentence

Six example sentences with glib, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every question about the shortfall got the same glib line about efficiency, and the numbers never once appeared.

    Politics

  • Investors have stopped rewarding glib pitch decks, and now ask for the cohort table before the founder finishes talking.

    Startups

  • The novel's villain is glib rather than menacing, charming three families out of their savings between chapters.

    Literature

  • The adviser's glib assurance that the fund could never lose money should have sent every client straight to the door.

    Finance

  • Interviewers learn to distrust glib answers, since a candidate who never pauses has usually rehearsed rather than reflected.

    Psychology

  • The consultant's glib summary of the factory's problems impressed the board and none of the engineers who ran the floor.

    Business

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