Sentence examples for say glibly from inspiring English sources

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So you embrace the great unwashed, I say glibly, and they repay you by rioting.

It is not dealing with the past to say glibly, "Let bygones be bygones," for then they will never be bygones.

"To say glibly that everybody has got to make cuts is a rather simplistic approach and I can't imagine that people whose homes have been flooded are going to be comforted by that kind of statement".

It is tempting to say, glibly, that what happened is that the others cashed in, that they made a big profit from the real estate boom that remade skid row when there was mortgage money to be borrowed.

Anyway, they argue, as a senior administration official said today, that the issues of North Korea's building missiles and encouraging nuclear proliferation were too "important to say glibly: 'This guy is kooky.

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"Though I guess you could say I am a taxidermist to some degree," Mr. Schaudel said glibly from the kitchen at Jedediah's.

And we are meant to marvel at the indomitable, unforgettable character who may be cranky and ornery, but still says glibly: "Any fool can learn to swim.

(Lagerfeld, I ought to point out, could be of no help at this stage; like most designers, he avoids client fittings. "It's not in my contract," he said glibly. "I speak to the press, but they are working class like me").

The 4 October Treasury press release said glibly: "HMRC will implement this policy [withdrawing child benefit from households with a higher rate taxpayer] through the existing PAYE and Self-Assessment structures". How?

It wasn't like, oh, your mother's dead upstairs". Rooney hasn't said this glibly.

"We've seen this kind of thing before," David says, rather glibly.

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