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Glib-tongued   /glɪb-təŋd/   Listen
Glib-tongued

adjective
1.
Artfully persuasive in speech.  Synonyms: glib, smooth-tongued.  "A smooth-tongued hypocrite"






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"Glib-tongued" Quotes from Famous Books



... must be granted to Mr. Chamberlain; but when I come to speak of him intellectually, I cannot see anything in him but a very perky, smart, glib-tongued "drummer," who is able to pick up the crumbs of knowledge with extraordinary rapidity, and give them forth again with considerable dexterity. He speech on Uganda, so far as its thought and its phraseology were concerned, was on the level of the profound ...
— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor

... father's law office and pretended he was representing some great business in the West, until he was welcomed as a promising client. He hung around and when she came in one day her father was forced to introduce them. The remainder is the same world-old story——a good looking, glib-tongued man, plying every art known to an expert, ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter



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