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Glib Word Salesman Slick Describe Kind ɡlɪb Adj.油腔滑调的

Front glib
Pron [ɡlɪb]
Back 【glib】
adj.油腔滑调的
A glib door-to-door salesman sold her a set of books that she did not want.
一位挨户访问言辞伶俐的售货员卖给她一套她本来不要的书。
Vocab
glibartfully persuasive in speech

A hiring manager might think you're being glib, or slick and insincere, if you say you've led a successful multinational corporation when you were actually in charge of flipping burgers for a fast-food restaurant chain.

The word glib might be used to describe the slick car salesman who uses his polished sales pitch to talk his customers into buying lemons. In fact, the word comes from old German and Dutch words for "slippery," another word that could be used to describe the very same salesman. In addition to meaning "smooth" and "persuasive," glib can be applied to the kind of thoughtless comment that could get you into big trouble. Telling your boss that you had a "hot time" with his daughter is the kind of glib remark that could end your career.

All forms of 'glib' will appear on average once every 2543 pages.
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