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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.
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Every sentence arrives polished into bite-size emotional shorthand—ridiculous, slightly glib, but not entirely wrong.
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Or means that any comments are supposedly hypocritical.
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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.
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Advertisement Then too, there’s the voluble—sometimes volatile—Musk himself.
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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.
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Not everyone believes, however, that the line is insincere.
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And so, open door policies rarely fail because leaders are insincere.
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At 59, Romans is worldly, well-spoken and well-educated.
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The stars were well-read and well-spoken, and academically motivated, some graduating in three years.
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This symbol is used to communicate betrayal or being two-faced.
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The architecture is two-faced — and everyone inside the organization eventually reads it.
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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.
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In addition, the trial judge gave the jury erroneous instructions, the appeals court ruled.
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But such fine evidence of the erroneous human touch in the publishing process is, of course, cherished by collectors of this day.
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“Smooth-tongued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smooth-tongued. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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