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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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