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Definition
artfully persuasive in speech or having only superficial plausibility
- A hook-nosed glib fellow! as cool as a cucumber,—always looking so sure of his game!2.2 — Book 2 Chapter 2 — The Christmas Holidays (82% in)
- But he told Mr. Tulliver several stories about "Swing" and incendiarism, and asked his advice about feeding pigs in so thoroughly secular and judicious a manner, with so much polished glibness of tongue, that the miller thought, here was the very thing he wanted for Tom.2.1 — Book 2 Chapter 1 — Tom's "First Half" (23% in)
There are no more uses of "glib" in The Mill on the Floss.
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