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# glib

«glib» in Mova's school dictionary: **too smooth and quick, said easily without real thought** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (glib, glibber, glibbest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Glib describes talk that is too smooth and quick, said easily without real thought. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glib/#m1)

2) (old use) Glib means smooth or slippery, as in the tales of skin made smooth with oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glib/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales skin rubbed with fish-oil becomes glib, meaning smooth; in ordinary talk a glib answer is too easy to be trusted

### examples

- Then they rubbed their mouths with fish-oil, so that they became very smooth and glib. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glib/#x1)
- The salesman gave a glib answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glib/#x2)
- Her glib excuse did not fool the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glib/#x3)
- He is glib, but he never does his homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glib/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glib» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glib/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.