Synonyms for glib
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1. glib

   Synonyms:
   slippery, voluble, smooth, fluent, ready, talkative, flippant

   Antonyms:
   rough, abrupt, hesitating, stammering, glimmer

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1. glibadjective

   marked by lack of intellectual depth

   "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"

   Synonyms:
   pat, slick, smooth-tongued, glib-tongued

   Antonyms:
   dissuasive, profound, implausible

2. glib, pat, slickadjective

   having only superficial plausibility

   "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"

   Synonyms:
   silky, smooth-tongued, cunning, slick, glib-tongued, sly, satiny, wily, sleek, silken, knavish, tricksy, pat, crafty, silklike, guileful, dodgy, tricky, foxy

   Antonyms:
   dissuasive, profound, implausible

3. glib, glib-tongued, smooth-tonguedadjective

   artfully persuasive in speech

   "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-tongued hypocrite"

   Synonyms:
   pat, slick, smooth-tongued, glib-tongued

   Antonyms:
   dissuasive, profound, implausible

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1. glibadjective

   Synonyms:
   smooth, slippery

2. glibadjective

   Synonyms:
   voluble, fluent, ready, talkative, flippant, nimble of speech, ready in speech, of a ready tongue

3. glibverb

   Synonyms:
   castrate, geld, emasculate, deprive of virility

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1. glibadjective

   Synonyms:
   smooth, slippery, fluent, voluble, bland, oily

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1. List of paraphrases for "glib":

   breezy, flippant

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1. Peter Drucker:

   Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

2. Eugene Robinson:

   [I was] trying not to lose my mind and avoiding the blast zone of Carlos' frequently expressed ire, while the outside world he faced saw glib and charming, those who had to work with him saw a very different face.

3. Bill Clinton:

   It is not a time for easy answers, for glib answers, or one liners, or applause lines, those are all great, that is part of campaigning, but at the end of the day, we need a president who has both the experience and the understanding to deal with the complexity of the problems we face.

4. Lincoln Chafee:

   Taking down a (Democratic) machine is hard enough alone, but to have an independent wild card -- very glib, very outspoken, didn't care what he said -- was a learning experience.

5. Donald Trump:

   Ted is very glib, and he goes out and says, 'Well, I'm a natural born citizen,' the point is, you're not.