glad-handed; glad-handing; glad-hands
: to extend a glad hand to
candidates glad-handing everyone they meet
: to extend a glad hand
glad-handing as if he were running for mayor
: a warm welcome or greeting often prompted by ulterior reasons
Examples of glad-hand in a Sentence
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Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Networking at its core, is not about glad-handing people at awkward, structured, networking events, although those events serve their purposes for some industries and are excellent for practicing your elevator pitch.
—Jay Sullivan, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
But there are additional practical factors on top of whatever institutional bias may exist — like the fact that Malone glad-handed all of Nashville, in contrast to Bey’s fairly transparent attitude of alienation from or at best indifferent attitude to Music City’s institutions.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
Giacalone, whom investigators describe as a grim-faced recluse, was at the Southfield Athletic Club, glad-handing acquaintances and even strangers.
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
Vance, the onetime Trump critic, glad-handed his way through a crowd of admirers as his place on the ticket was made official.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Inside the chamber, as the President walked the aisle to the podium, slowly, endlessly, glad-handing legislators, he was confronted by the Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wore a red MAGA hat despite the House’s ban on campaign paraphernalia.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Extended scenes of Michel working the room and greeting longtime customers go beyond glad-handing schmaltz to substantive discussions of his practices and influences and, above all, to his unfolding, for diners, of the Troisgros family’s multigenerational story.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
As the most powerful Chinese leader in generations, Xi Jinping rarely bothers to glad-hand or to try charming a crowd.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Arguably the most notorious figure from the game’s most storied rivalry flew from his South Florida home to Boston for Tuesday night’s game and was expected to glad hand a few Yankees before, for many of them, the biggest game of their lives.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
His medium, his material, is human frailty, the near end of original sin, and the tools of his trade are the glad hand, the scratched back, the padded envelope, the cut corner, and the jumped line.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
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Verb
Vance joined Trump for a surprise stop at a McDonald’s to glad-hand adoring fans, leading to viral videos and news coverage that aides said surpassed a standard rally.
—Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Networking at its core, is not about glad-handing people at awkward, structured, networking events, although those events serve their purposes for some industries and are excellent for practicing your elevator pitch.
—Jay Sullivan, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
But there are additional practical factors on top of whatever institutional bias may exist — like the fact that Malone glad-handed all of Nashville, in contrast to Bey’s fairly transparent attitude of alienation from or at best indifferent attitude to Music City’s institutions.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
Giacalone, whom investigators describe as a grim-faced recluse, was at the Southfield Athletic Club, glad-handing acquaintances and even strangers.
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
Vance, the onetime Trump critic, glad-handed his way through a crowd of admirers as his place on the ticket was made official.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Inside the chamber, as the President walked the aisle to the podium, slowly, endlessly, glad-handing legislators, he was confronted by the Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wore a red MAGA hat despite the House’s ban on campaign paraphernalia.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Extended scenes of Michel working the room and greeting longtime customers go beyond glad-handing schmaltz to substantive discussions of his practices and influences and, above all, to his unfolding, for diners, of the Troisgros family’s multigenerational story.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
As the most powerful Chinese leader in generations, Xi Jinping rarely bothers to glad-hand or to try charming a crowd.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
Noun
But for all the talk of South Carolina’s penchant for dirty tricks, the state also values the glad hand.
—Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
Arguably the most notorious figure from the game’s most storied rivalry flew from his South Florida home to Boston for Tuesday night’s game and was expected to glad hand a few Yankees before, for many of them, the biggest game of their lives.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
His medium, his material, is human frailty, the near end of original sin, and the tools of his trade are the glad hand, the scratched back, the padded envelope, the cut corner, and the jumped line.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
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