facile
IPA: fˈæsʌɫ
adjective
- (now usually derogatory) Easy; contemptibly easy.
- (now rare) Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
- Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
- Lazy, simplistic (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
- (chemistry) Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
Examples of "facile" in Sentences
- The argument is not facile at all.
- Brissot became known as a facile and able writer, and was engaged on the
- He has what is called a facile pen, though it sometimes runs away with him.
- Even as they immerse themselves in facile debates about the Boy King's "A-list", it could have a material effect on their electoral prospects.
- So that class of women known as facile is unknown to me, or if I allow myself to be taken with them, it is without knowing it, and through innate simplicity.
- Leisure time is being stolen from us, language is degraded and commercialized in facile ways, and anything made for “serious human ends” is rendered irrelevant.
- I’m torn between not wanting to speak ill of a fellow Guinness drinker and pointing out how utterly facile is your view of the connection between lobbyists and government.
- The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that _Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana_, which closeth the volume of his
- The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana, which closeth the volume of his "Opuscula Academica," to observe (we translate from memory) that,
- Arrived in Cincinnati, where he got employment in the Western Union commercial telegraph department at a wage of $60 per month, Edison made the acquaintance of Milton F. Adams, already referred to as facile princeps the typical telegrapher in all his more sociable and brilliant aspects.
- Il se fait que le mot “écu” désignait les pièces d'or ou d'argent qui commencèrent à être utilisées sous le règne de Louis IX, en 1266, de sorte qu'il s'agissait d'une appellation facile à retenir pour les Français, lorsque ceux-ci apprirent qu'ils devraient renoncer à leur cher franc français.