facile
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1. facile - Adjective
2. facile - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.
Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.
Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.
Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Philosophic clarity has been a key to his life in business, and he doesn't fall for facile or self-flattering descriptions-not even, usually, for the self-flattery of thinking he is immune to self-flattery.
Plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat.