Glib

A criticism of this “never let a good crisis go to waste” outlook is that it can lead to a glib, Pollyannaish, lipstick-on-a-pig view of problems.

Hansson’s answer might sound glib, but he says you just buy a new one.

He mastered none of the details but all of the glib lines.

In blank verse, rhymed couplets and ballad metre, Sullivan puts her formal skills to bitterly effective use, finding a glib jingle in the Grenfell inquiry’s bureaucratese (“this report is avowedly provisional.

There’s a ripple effect, and to say, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time,” is a glib and heartless way to look at how a justice system should operate.

Aside from that glib allusion to the leveling of Gaza, she does not otherwise mention “the plight of Palestinians,” nor does she contextualize Hamas’s attack within the multi-decade Israeli occupation of Palestine.

At times, though, Lenderman is as predictable as a political cartoonist, employing glib ironies to mock smartwatches and guys who rent Ferraris after a breakup.

Focusing on corporate profitability is “glib,” Rahman said.

One can’t imagine the secretary being so glib about Qatar, even though, like the Iranian regime, its rulers also openly support Hamas and run their state in accordance with Islamic imperatives rather than democratic consent.

So it’s a bit glib to say that it’s all just a con.

Their glib jokes about vaping, drinking, drug taking and trauma — and, specifically, how those things relate to, or form an essential part of, “girlhood” — are the kinds of jokes going viral on X, formerly Twitter, every day.

The judge told the defendant: “Whilst I have come to the conclusion that you have shown yourself to be a glib and easy liar, and you have treated with utter callousness.

And here, naturally, was Gove, with his little coup de grace, savouring the thrilling endorphin rush as he delivered his glib little point to win the debate.

Cyrus was glib, and Jordan Ashford (Briana Nicole Henry) quickly whisked Cyrus away from the scene.

It has become commonly glib to declare that we are living in the dystopian future.

Psychopaths and politicians both have a tendency to be selfish, callous, remorseless users of others, irresponsible, pathological liars, glib, con artists, lacking in remorse, and shallow.

We are now forced to be “in this together,” a phrase insisted upon in every glib managerial email.

When Alex asked why they couldn't just give Supergirl one of the Kryptonite shielding devices that had used to protect her in the past, Luthor offered another glib explanation.

While it’s a way to cope with tragedy, it can possibly come across as glib or unsympathetic.

Apparently not wanting to wade into politics or legislation, the chain fired back with a glib joke in an apparent attempt to turn the conversation away from the topic of guns.