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as in glib
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as in hypocritical
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Mary disrupts Clark’s equilibrium with the Backrooms by refusing to validate his excuses for his behavior, fully calling out his failings, his petty assholery, and his glib, solipsistic lies.—
Tasha Robinson,
Vulture,
29 May 2026 -
Every sentence arrives polished into bite-size emotional shorthand—ridiculous, slightly glib, but not entirely wrong.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
26 May 2026
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Earlier this month, Matsui’s campaign came after Vang for taking corporate donations from Sacramento-area businesses during her city council campaigns, implying that Vang’s vows to not accept money from corporate PACs in her congressional bid is hypocritical.—
Mathew Miranda
June 4,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2026
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People are fixating on celebrities of all kinds, accusing singers of body-positive anthems of being hypocritical, rolling their eyes at athletes promoting weight loss drugs and whispering about the thinness of their favorite movie stars.—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Concerns about Trump’s ability to carry out his duties have grown so voluble that there are now competing efforts to either invoke the 25th amendment or compel him to resign in a last-ditch effort to contain the damage.—
John Whitehead,
Oc Register,
23 Apr. 2026
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Hostility to such politics has been voluble and loud.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Everyone else was various degrees of insincere or arch.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2026
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But somewhere between legal automation and insincere executive empathy is the place where actual human communication still exists.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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There’s promise in the idea of a prim, well-spoken but forever subjugated nanny wreaking bloody revenge on England’s cruelly non-negotiable class system.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
28 May 2026
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At 59, Romans is worldly, well-spoken and well-educated.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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The architecture is two-faced — and everyone inside the organization eventually reads it.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2026
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And Alexander Hamilton gets slightly better press than the other two, but he is shown as someone who is brilliant, but self-seeking, arrogant, snobbish, contemptuous of others, and profoundly two-faced.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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Kevin Klose was silver-haired, silver-tongued, and the gold standard for broadcast journalists.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
18 Apr. 2026
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Though Harper has often been quick to be silver-tongued in her evisceration of Yasmin, there is, indeed, love lost between them.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
1 Mar. 2026
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Judge Nicole Hopps last month increased his minimum term of incarceration to 60 years after granting his request to correct the erroneous sentence.—
Tom Olsen,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2026
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There is a widespread, but erroneous, belief that fraud is why the state Unemployment Insurance Fund is deeply in the red.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
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“Smooth-tongued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smooth-tongued. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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