Glossa in a sentence as a noun

The name "Pangloss" comes from Greek pan, meaning "all," and glossa, meaning "tongue," suggesting glibness and talkativeness. The idea that there's always a good reason for every societal practice that we currently observe is arrogant too, just in a different way.

The name "Pangloss" comes from Greek pan, meaning "all," and glossa, meaning "tongue," suggesting glibness and talkativeness. You see people trying to articulate the desperation they feel about job loss, and some Pangloss sweeps by to comfort them by talking about how macroeconomically speaking they are more than offset by someone else's gain in welfare.

Glossa definitions

noun

a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

See also: tongue lingua clapper