Adjective : facile fingers; a facile mind. ,a facile victory; a facile method. ,a facile temperament; facile people. From Dictionary.com.
He could probe as facilely here as in the markeplace. From Wordnik.com. [For Love of Mother-Not]
I apologize for facilely lumping Okinawans into the AJA category. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: POLITICAL SHIBAI.] Reference
All felt as he did but could not put their emotions into words as facilely. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
No one else is as facilely comfortable with their ways, with their habits or mannerisms. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
Media pundits facilely dismiss any differences between the two Democratic U.S. Senate Candidates. From Wordnik.com. [Michele Swenson: Changing Politics as Usual: Why We Need Andrew Romanoff, the Grassroots Choice] Reference
Over the years the land and sea borders have been facilely breached and yet no lessons were learnt. From Wordnik.com. [Op-Ed: Carnage at Mumbai and the Way Ahead] Reference
In the computer age, reading and writing will not become obsolete, as many have so facilely asserted…. From Wordnik.com. [Turmoil and Triumph] Reference
The problem is that we are so habituated to wars and rumors of wars that we have justified war too facilely. From Wordnik.com. [Death, Legal and Illegal] Reference
Changeability is attributed to the feminine, but Maya was not able to shift her mood as facilely as her fiance. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
No, once the promises fail, a nation, still thinking magically, marches just as facilely into irrational despair. From Wordnik.com. [Magic and Mayhem] Reference
Existing rationed care that renders many with minimal or no health care access, is facilely dismissed - as long as it affects others. From Wordnik.com. [Michele Swenson: Insurance Does Not Equal Health Care: Specious Arguments by 'Free-Market' Opponents of Colorado Single Payer Bill] Reference
Blake asks that his readers move as facilely between the folds of the illuminated plates and the world in which they read his prophecies. From Wordnik.com. [Living Inside the Poem: MOOs and Blake's Milton] Reference
However, Matu became so visibly alarmed when Molly started to argue for a mushroom cloud motif that we switched, rather facilely, I must say, to a backup plan. From Wordnik.com. [And Then: Parts 1-3] Reference
Ah, I see you're fully able to facilely & accurately predict. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
I saw then how facilely easy it was going to be to take fright at shadows. From Wordnik.com. [Branded] Reference
He knew his father, and for the Prince to yield thus facilely was incredible. From Wordnik.com. [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference
She had been willing to be lightly, facilely happy over it like other people. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
Asotoma Sat Gamaya: how often is it that we rattle off these lines, and how facilely!. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to IMF Aides Arrive in Ukraine for Loan Talks] Reference
Sept. 4, Federer was playing defense, facilely sliding back and forth along the baseline. From Wordnik.com. [Multichannel News: Cable Operators] Reference
One wonders how it can be so facilely repeated with animals in the heartland of our Homeland. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Yes, that Grammy who he so facilely threw under the bus during the early days of his campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Hill Coffee House] Reference
It was facilely easy to picture a future in some far distant corner of the country where I might begin all over again and make good. From Wordnik.com. [Branded] Reference
Imaginative to the degree which facilely transforms the suppositional into the real, he was still singularly free from superstition. From Wordnik.com. [The Price] Reference
Thus it is unsafe, here as elsewhere, to generalize too facilely, and particularly unsafe to exhibit causes with too much assurance. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 1. General Characters] Reference
Mortgage loans utterances indicator facilely fierceness.arbitrariness. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More suppression of dissent:] Reference
Carriger so facilely avoids other clichés that it’s a shame this one mars the text. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Soulless, book one of the Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger (Orbit, 2009)] Reference
You’re obviously only facilely familiar with Lysenko and not even vaguely knowledgeable about Quine. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession:] Reference
I think you dismiss Professor Dwyer’s position to which I would say, just based on reading your excerpts, I adhere too facilely. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mother’s Open Paganism Treated as Reason to Deny Her Custody:] Reference
Because that’s about the only conclusion one can make in the way you dopes so facilely “defeat” everything from tree rings to climate models. From Wordnik.com. [John Hunter on Sea Levels « Climate Audit] Reference
She refused to be put off so facilely. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
"Couldn't see any blood," she finished facilely. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
"A magic apparition," Jon-Tom explained facilely. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
2005 wsopdate refinement democrats Paulette lowland facilely. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Understatement of the Month:] Reference
" "Of course," she lied facilely. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
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