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facileness

/fas-il or, especially British, -ahyl/US // ˈfæs ɪl or, especially British, -aɪl //UK // (ˈfæsaɪl) //

便利性,方便性,便利,方便程度

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
    • : easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
    • : easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
    • : affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people.

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Examples

  • Elections experts say such patterns can be easily explained, but Byrne called such dismissals “facile bromides” that are not reassuring to him or millions of other Americans.

  • If most of the McCarthy comparisons have been favorable, all of them have been facile.

  • I am picking them at random here, because evil is so damn facile.

  • Real-world profilers have to be careful, and are, not to indulge in facile ethnic, racial or religious “profiling.”

  • Then I picked up a book that shredded my facile preconceptions—Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young.

  • But we should beware of the facile tradition of criticizing colleges, professors, and the young (or just mocking them).

  • But he was a man of marked executive ability, and when occasion demanded he wielded a facile and ready pen.

  • But the notion may very well be of older date than this period of facile illustration.

  • For the second time I felt my facile invention sitting somewhat less easily on me.

  • Indeed, Chopin even found fault with the master where he is universally regarded as facile princeps.

  • Wherever you go you will hear, in tram or car, the facile gossip of literature.