All 4 Uses
facile
in
This Side of Paradise
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- He was an auburn-haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative mind and a taste for fancy dress.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- "I am feeling very old to-day, Amory," she would sigh, her face a rare cameo of pathos, her voice exquisitely modulated, her hands as facile as Bernhardt's.†
Chpt 1.1
- The last scene was laid on a roof-garden, and the 'cellos sighed to the musical moon, while light adventure and facile froth-like comedy flitted back and forth in the calcium.†
Chpt 1.1
- The summer was over, but he had spent the days in watching Eleanor, a graceful, facile Manfred, build herself intellectual and imaginative pyramids while she revelled in the artificialities of the temperamental teens and they wrote poetry at the dinner-table.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(facile) superficial (lacking depth)
or:
skillful or easily achieved - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)