Both Uses of
facile
in
Middlemarch
- "My love," he said, with irritation reined in by propriety, "you may rely upon me for knowing the times and the seasons, adapted to the different stages of a work which is not to be measured by the facile conjectures of ignorant onlookers.†
Chpt 2
- In religion he could be, as long as it suited him, the facile echo of Dorothea's vagaries.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
superficial (lacking depth)
or:
skillful or easily achieved
or:
skillful or easily achieved