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glibly, adv.|ˈglɪblɪ|
[f. glib a. + -ly2.]
In a glib manner.
1. Smoothly; easily; without impediment.
1605B. Jonson Volpone i. i, You shall ha' some will swallow A melting heire, as glibly as your Dutch Will pills of butter. 1632Massinger City Madam i. i. (1658) 4 Tradewell. Here's no grosse flattery: Will she swallow this? Goldwire. You see she does, and glibly. 1686J. Dunton Lett. fr. New Eng. (1867) 13 Nor was there wanting to all this good chear, plenty of Wines to make it go down glibly. 1744Armstrong Preserv. Health ii. 498 The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 84 These..lines..have no knots to prevent their running glibly through the rings of the rod. 1807Sporting Mag. XXIX. 70 Every thing went on glibly. 1818M. G. Lewis Journ. W. Ind. (1834) 258 The old lady..seemed to swallow the lie very glibly. 1844Thackeray Wand. Fat Contrib. ii. Wks. 1886 XXIV. 78 [It] was slipping down his throat as glibly as an oyster. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 196 His broken fragments will reunite more glibly than the head and neck of Orrilo.
2. Fluently, with ready utterance.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 232 Let them come to make a familiar discourse in Latine..they do it not glibly, in a current Style. 1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. Introd. 8 These caricatures of the real beauty of sensibility, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the taste. 1801M. Edgeworth Angelina iv. (1832) 76 Mrs. Puffit, having glibly run off this speech, left the room. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxi. (1856) 269 None knew their parts, and the prompter could not read glibly enough to do his office. 1885Manch. Exam. 4 Feb. 3/5 We talk glibly of ‘Dutch painting’. |