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adj. - Artfully persuasive in speech.

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Usage examples (36)
  • The Master said, “It is on this account that I hate your glib-tongued people.”
  • Gerard should have realized silence was a bad sign for the glib-tongued young woman.
  • And as clever and glib-tongued as I was, I did not think I was good enough to talk my way out of this.
  • After this manner spake the glib-tongued fellows and, behold, their speeches were as oil on the troubled waters.
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