glibly

English

Etymology

From glib +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɪbli/
• Rhymes: -ɪbli

Adverb

glibly (comparative more glibly, superlative most glibly)

1. In a glib manner.
   • 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

     "It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well."

   • 1916, Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Review 5 (392-409):

     […] they are unconscious of all the history and human experience by which the liturgy has been enriched, and unmoved by the glibly repeated words of the Gospel […]

   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!‎^[1]:

     Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]