From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfacilefa‧cile /ˈfæsaɪl $ ˈfæsəl/ adjective 1 CARELESSa facile remark, argument etc is too simple and shows a lack of careful thought or understanding facile generalizations2 [only before noun] formalEASY a facile achievement or success has been obtained too easily and has no value a facile victory —facilely adverb —facileness noun [uncountable]
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facile• A fifth mistaken approach is the facile assertion that opponents are being inconsistent.• During a given project, the collaboratory notices and remembers which of us are good, even facile, at which tasks.• Every society must be protected from a too facile flow of thought.• The senator is known for making facile judgments on current issues.• It muddles facile loathing of a parody bureaucracy with the great issues of statesmanship.• A crude or facile narrative technique will inevitably fail to achieve the desired ideological objective.• Munro never lets you get away with a facile, one-dimensional take.• It is facile to attribute all childhood problems to poor parenting or social circumstances.• It is facile to employ cost of living indices or indices of neo-natal mortality without knowing how the figures are calculated.Origin facile (1400-1500) French Latin facilis “easy to do”, from facere “to do, make” 