glibly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɡlɪbli/

Definition of glibly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a glib manner.
    “"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."”
    “[…] 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 […]”
    “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, […]”

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Etymology

From glib + -ly.

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