Example sentences for: glib

How can you use “glib” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The novel, the first by Chuck Palahniuk (the surname sounds like Eskimo for "palooka"--which somehow fits), walks a line between the straight and ironic--it isn't always clear if its glib sociological pronouncements are meant to be taken straight or as the ravings of a delusional mama's boy.

  • Some of their criticisms are repeated here by legal academics Laurence Tribe and Ronald Dworkin: Scalia's originalism is too glib, because it doesn't distinguish between what the Constitution says and what its framers expected it to do ; too malleable, because it merely substitutes the guesswork of historians for the musings of moral philosophers; too value-laden, because it imputes an anti-evolutionary purpose to the Constitution.

  • Do it too soon and you seem glib and insincere: "You're sorry?

  • We have had presidents with tempers before, but have we ever had a president who is this glib?

  • Do it too late and you seem, actually it's glib and insincere again.


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