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Definition of Glibbest
1. glib [adj] - See also: glib
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glibbest
Literary usage of Glibbest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"... loudest and glibbest sermon. Here is No. 1475, for instance,—a " Holy Family,"
painted in the antique manner, and with all the accessories before spoken ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... especially in the case of those who grow glibbest in the arguments for their
subjectivity. The first principles of force and matter, some account of ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... loudest and glibbest sermon. Here is No. 1475, for instance—a " Holy Family,"
painted in the antique manner, and with all the accessories before spoken ..."
4. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"... enough painted and intended to be religious, that have not the slightest effect
upon me, no more than Dr. Thump- cushion's loudest and glibbest ser mon. ..."
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