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Glibness

noun
1.
A kind of fluent easy superficiality.  Synonym: slickness.






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"Glibness" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Arrah, an' is it yerrself, Purrdy, me bhoy? Shure an' it's bussin' ye I'd be afther—if me legs would carry me!" And Purdy laughed, and relished the honey, and had an answer pat for everybody especially the women. His companion on the other hand was greeted with a glibness that had something perfunctory in it, and ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... silent, glibness of tongue not being among the gifts of the East Tennessee landward bred. But he grasped the out-thrust hand heartily ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot



Words linked to "Glibness" :   slickness, shallowness, superficiality, glib



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