GLIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glibly mean? 

• GLIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb GLIBLY has 1 sense:

1. with superficial plausibility

  Familiarity information: GLIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With superficial plausibility

Synonyms:

glibly; slickly

Context example:

he talked glibly

Pertainym:

glib (having only superficial plausibility)

 Context examples 

“One is Mr. Harris, of Bermondsey, and the other is Mr. Price, of this town,” said our clerk, glibly.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are— I was on the verge of saying, “my woman, my mate,” but glibly changed it to—“standing the hardship well.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Follow her he did, though bothered by unfamiliar words that fell glibly from her lips and by critical phrases and thought-processes that were foreign to his mind, but that nevertheless stimulated his mind and set it tingling.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All this ran so glibly through her thoughts, that by the time her father had arranged himself, after the bustle of the Eltons' departure, and was ready to speak, she was very tolerably capable of attending.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“And it was a newspaper poem,” she said glibly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)