How to Use glib in a Sentence

glib

adjective

• Politicians need to do more than provide glib answers to difficult questions.
• 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
• 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
• His glib, know-it-all style may impress some in the media, but his crisis-management skills are awful.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 Feb. 2023
• High school, as so many glib teen comedies tell us, is hell—as is watching a teen comedy that’s just going through the motions.
  — Jesse Hassenger, Men's Health, 12 Jan. 2023
• For Cruise -- who's front and center in practically every scene -- the glib Seal offers one of the meatiest roles he's enjoyed in a while.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 29 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024