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superficial (lacking depth)

or:

skillful or easily achieved

a facile plan, perfect for politics, but inadequate as a real solution

The analogy is too facile for so complex a problem.
She's facile with standard office technology and an especially fast at typing.
He invented a facile excuse...
Wilde, Oscar -- The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Let us remember the tragedy of Azzolati the ruthless, the ridiculous financier with a criminal soul (or shall we say heart) and facile tears.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Arrow of Gold
This facile adaptation was at once the symptom of perfect health and its best preservative.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- House Of Seven Gables
Among the others Thomas Carew follows the classical principles of Jonson in lyrics which are facile, smooth, and sometimes a little frigid.
Fletcher, Robert Huntington -- A History of English Literature
There is no other way of accounting for their facile docility.
Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
able to dazzle with his facile tongue
a facile hand
In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.
Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein
The second line I have resurrected from the void may be a little too facile, but I have kept it.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
He gave her facile masculine advice.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
She longed to be able to throw into her voice the facile passion of a light woman.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
And it was probably facile to compare the responses of the United States and Cuba.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Nirriti was a small man, with a twinkling eye, a facile smile, dark hair, restrained by a silver band, an upturned nose and eyes the color of his palace.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
And Raphael now, to Adam's doubt proposed, Benevolent and facile thus replied.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
Your facile brain and your imperial presence didn't help you very much when you saw Paree, huh?
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
And your mind is as facile as a young lamb leaping in a daisy field.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
But Roberta was not of a temperament that permitted of any such facile friendships, and nothing had come of it.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

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