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单词 glibly
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gliblyadv.

Brit. /ˈɡlɪbli/, U.S. /ˈɡlɪbli/
Etymology: < glib adj. + -ly suffix2.
In a glib manner.
1. Smoothly; easily; without impediment.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [adverb] > without hindrance or encumberment
freelyeOE
wellOE
freec1250
glidderly13..
without (also but) lettingc1330
oliver current1466
smootha1500
pronewise1585
currently1586
glib1594
glibly1607
clearly1612
swimminglya1640
smoothly1668
uninterrupted1677
unobstructedly1788
smack-smooth1802
sweetly1825
sweet1846
unimpededly1846
hitchlessly1910
1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. i. sig. Bv You shall ha' some will swallow A melting heire, as glibly, as your Dutch Will pills of butter. View more context for this quotation
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 84 Tradewell. Here's no grosse flattery: Will she swallow this? Goldwire. You see she does, and glibly.
1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 13 Nor was there wanting to all this good chear, plenty of Wines to make it go down glibly.
1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health ii. 54 The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 84 These..lines..have no knots to prevent their running glibly through the rings of the rod.
1807 Sporting Mag. 29 70 Every thing went on glibly.
a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 258 The old lady..seemed to swallow the lie very glibly.
1844 W. M. Thackeray Wanderings Fat Contributor ii, in Wks. (1886) XXIV. 78 [It] was slipping down his throat as glibly as an oyster.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 196 His broken fragments will reunite more glibly than the head and neck of Orrilo.
2. Fluently, with ready utterance.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adverb]
roundly1546
babblingly1561
babblishly1574
talkatively1589
full-moutha1605
fluently1613
volubly?1615
gliba1623
glibly1669
gash1721
gashlya1774
rattlingly1824
loquaciously1854
garrulously1859
chatteringly1864
communicatively1868
chattily1892
talkingly1895
gushily1921
yappingly1924
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 232 Let them come to make a familiar discourse in Latine..they do it not glibly, in a current Style.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman Introd. 8 These caricatures of the real beauty of sensibility, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the taste.
1801 M. Edgeworth Angelina iv, in Moral Tales II. 117 Mrs. Puffit, having glibly run off this speech, left the room.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 269 None knew their parts, and the prompter could not read glibly enough to do his office.
1885 Manch. Examiner 4 Feb. 3/5 We talk glibly of ‘Dutch painting’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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