English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "glib" is:(adj.) (1) vlot en slank maar onopreg en vlak; (2) gekenmerk deur gemak en vlotheid in praat of skryf dikwels tot die punt dat dit onopreg of bedrieglik is.Met ander woorde, "glib" verwys na iemand wat op 'n gladde, maklike manier praat, maar dit doen dus op 'n manier wat dalk onopreg of oppervlakkig lyk. Dit kan ook daarop dui dat die spreker té toevallig of onverskillig is in hul kommunikasie.

Sentence Examples

  1. Glib helped establish authority, even though it usually made the glib person unlikable.
  2. Franz had already made seven or eight similar excursions to the Colosseum, while his less favored companion trod for the first time in his life the classic ground forming the monument of Flavius Vespasian and, to his credit be it spoken, his mind, even amid the glib loquacity of the guides, was duly and deeply touched with awe and enthusiastic admiration of all he saw and certainly no adequate notion of these stupendous ruins can be formed save by such as have visited them, and more especially by moonlight, at which time the vast proportions of the building appear twice as large when viewed by the mysterious beams of a southern moonlit sky, whose rays are sufficiently clear and vivid to light the horizon with a glow equal to the soft twilight of a western clime.
  3. At one time or other, every girl at Swan Harbor High had been affected by his glib tongue, sexy green eyes, or dimpled smile.
  4. Never mind the fact that I had never been very glib.