glad-handed

verb

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of glad-hand

  2. Superficially friendly.

    • Since Thelonius's arrest, Keith had been doing the right thing, making regular and glad-handed visits to Lilette and the kids, and he could all too easily see himself developing an obligation there
    • In wading through the mire of an era whose inmates have tired of supposed Enlightenment and loiter at the gates of the Dark, we should not be too glad-handed with the pearls of faith...

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA