How to use "glib" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "glib" in popular movie and book plots

  • Eventually even a glib real-estate agent (Nikola Đuričko) shows up with a reluctant client (Mirjana Karanović) as well as a pizza delivery guy (Miloš Samolov).  - Death of a Man in the Balkans
  • Kay is an orphan seeking to better his lot, whose rise is aided by a glib facility with words and a prudent distrust of his fellow men and hampered by a soft heart and his own temper.  - Kay the Left-Handed
  • Only glib talk by Sherman keeps the show on the road.  - The Big Circus
  • The group discovers that Never Die is allergic to glib talk, and begin speaking to each other glibly, Chung, too embarrassed to speak to Lady Fung in that way, speaking to Nine-Tails Fox, and the two pulling off each other shirts, and trap him.  - Flying Dagger
  • Harry is very glib with Lucy whenever he meets her.  - Lucy Gayheart
  • Tommy has long blond hair, and is openly gay with a glib sense of humor.  - The Trip (2002 film)
  • Written as a literary film treatment littered with footnotes and experimental nuances, Demon Theory is even parts camp and terror, combining glib dialogue, fascinating pop culture references, and an intricate subtext as it pursues the events of a haunting movie trilogy too real to dismiss.  - Demon Theory
  • They are initially successful, but their disguise comes unstuck when their glib story is seen through by Krovas, Grandmaster of the Thieves, and the Beggarmaster.  - Ill Met in Lankhmar
  • Hawkeye replies with a glib remark about Henry's intelligence, which ultimately insults Henry and allows Hawkeye some peace and quiet.  - Sticky Wicket
  • Josef assumes the glib man is a policeman, but the intruder does not identify himself and ignores Josef's demand to produce police ID.  - The Trial (1962 film)
  • Initially, and as usual, Miles is glib and evasive, but he eventually admits that he frightened the other boys with violence and vulgar language.  - The Innocents (1961 film)
  • Unhappy, disillusioned, and lonely, Janie chooses to leave Killicks and runs off with the glib Jody (Joe) Starks, who takes her to Eatonville, Florida.  - Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • The dealership of glib used car salesman Harvey Hunnicut is visited by a mild-mannered elderly gentleman who offers to sell his vintage Model A car for a pittance.  - The Whole Truth (The Twilight Zone)

Example sentences for "glib" in interesting articles

  • But you’re stuck with me for now, so here’s my glib summary: type systems and design by contract can go a long way towards determining compatibility, but if the language is Turing complete, they will never be sufficient.  - So you want to write a package manager
  • When I ask one of the candidate to write a simple LRU cache framework based on glib hash functions, he firstly claimed he had never used glib — that’s what I expected — I showed the glib hash api page and explained the APIs to him in detail, then after almost an hour he wrote only a few lines of messy code.I don’t know if the situation is similar in other countries, but in China, or more specifically, in Beijing, this is reality.  - Programmer's Dilemma
  • One glib reporter got far enough forward to encounter some infantrymen on the line, to whom he put cheerful questions like, "What would you like best from the States about now?" At first he got nothing but sullen looks and silence.  - The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)
  • Of course, the glib answer is that you _are_ affected…but isn't particularly helpful. It would be great if a follow up article could be written that gives the masses help on how to ensure their systems are fixed.  - RSA warns developers not to use RSA products
  • I realize I’m being glib and not very informative with my comments, but UNESCO was and is a thing.  - School Is to Submit
  • A lot of these self-help books I find are filled with advice that doesn’t seem relevant or are glib and skim over things because they think it’s what people want to hear.  - 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School
  • If you want to be glib about it (and I do!), you can think of the Interstate as an Internet for cars, a nationwide system unifying thousands of local road networks into an overarching whole.  - The Internet With A Human Face
  • One glib reporter got far enough forward to encounter some infantrymen on the line, to whom he put cheerful questions like, "What would you like best from the States about now?" At first he got nothing but sullen looks and silence.  - The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)

Meaning of "glib" in English

  • artfully persuasive in speech
    Example
    - a smooth-tongued hypocrite
  • having only superficial plausibility
    Example
    - a slick commercial
  • marked by lack of intellectual depth
    Example
    - a glib response to a complex question

Meaning of "glib" in Hindi

  • चिकना ( Chikana, chikanaa)
  • फिसलता हुआ ( Phisalata hu, phisalataa huaa, fisalata hu)
  • सुवक्ता ( Suvakta, suvaktaa, suwakta)
  • सतही ( Satahi, satahee)
  • चिकनी चुपड़ी बातें करने वाला ( Chikani chupadi baten karane vala, chikanee chupadee baaten karane vaalaa, chikani chupadi baten karane wala)

Synonyms of "glib"

  • pat
  • glib tongued
  • smooth tongued
  • slick

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