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Meanings of glib-tongued in English

Artfully persuasive in speech.

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Usage of glib-tongued in English
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Outside, the auctioneer, a smooth-faced, glib-tongued man, was already mounting the rostrum.
Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
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He was a glib-tongued Irishman who knew everything-orfondly imagined he did-fromthe law to horse-surgery.
On Our Selection
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He has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe, who live for show, servile to public opinion.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 / A Mag...
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I guarded her from the lot of them, and then a glib-tongued scoundrel comes along, and pooh!
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Pound in the pulpit for one day of the week, and this glib-tongued man contradicting him for seven.
David Malcolm
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After this manner spake the glib-tongued fellows and, behold, their speeches were as oil on the troubled waters.
Life in a Thousand Worlds
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Perhaps he is a glib-tongued gentleman, and assures me that the proceedings will commence at once: 'Sei tchas!
Russia
8
Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued:-these are injurious.'
The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
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For once in a way the glib-tongued lad was at a loss just what to say and how to say it.
The Lost City
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Well, a glib-tongued parson, a fellow by the name of Belcher, got round the widow-shewas a desperate fool-and ,byJove!
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories
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The remainder is the same world-old story-- agoodlooking, glib-tongued man, plying every art known to an expert, on an innocent girl.
The Harvester
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And as clever and glib-tongued as I was, I did not think I was good enough to talk my way out of this.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
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He helped her down to it, and she was in mortal terror, as such glib-tongued women generally are when there is the least danger.
Algonquin Legends of New England
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Outside, the auctioneer, a smooth-faced, glib-tongued man, was already mounting the rostrum.
Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
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He was a glib-tongued Irishman who knew everything-orfondly imagined he did-fromthe law to horse-surgery.
On Our Selection
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He has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe, who live for show, servile to public opinion.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 / A Mag...
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