How to Use glib in a Sentence

glib

adjective
  • Politicians need to do more than provide glib answers to difficult questions.
  • The short and glib answer is that this chart is climate change.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
  • As election strategies go, third time lucky might sound a bit glib.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Toews’ wit is razor-sharp, but never glib.
    — Literary Hub, 16 July 2024
  • Your very glib response is part of the problem, in my opinion.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Grant apologizes for his glib comment on night one, and thanks her for her honesty.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Mulkey is famously glib and surely doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her wardrobe.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2023
  • And the format can produce commentary that’s too glib by half.
    — The Hive, 24 Jan. 2017
  • 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
  • Shallow people focus instead on style, and on the glib talk of the snake oil salesman.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
  • 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
  • DeVos smiled and gave glib and at times false statements during the segment.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 12 Mar. 2018
  • In our culture, right now, people are very quick to be glib, and short, and not lean on the power of language.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The climax is both pleasing and glib in tying knots, as well as loose ends, and closing circles.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • There, by his bedside, her glib ethos of attachment gives way to something more tender.
    — Alexandra Tanner, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Chance’s glib vouching for Legend threw his fellow coaches for a loop.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • In lesser hands, that tonal balancing act could feel glib or exploitative.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • As a result, a conclusion that seems like it’s supposed to be shocking lands as a glib, abrupt cop-out.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The glib and easy use of the term can also lead to nauseating self-righteousness.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 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 satire of bourgeois affluence can seem glib and overextended.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Such a tried-and-true answer as tutoring may seem glib in the face of so many compounding challenges.
    — Thomas Howell, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • During the company’s earlier days, the trolling and glib comments were a feature, not a bug.
    — Kyle Stock, Fortune, 30 July 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
  • 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
  • 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 league enjoyed a free ride on glib patriotic display for more than 60 years, and now the bill is coming due.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 9 July 2018
  • 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
  • Any extra trimmings would land somewhere between glib and sacrilegious.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025

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