facile
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Yet he confronts the nuanced situation in Europe in facile terms, seemingly unable to perceive shades of gray.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
That kind of cynicism is cheap and facile and masquerades as intelligence and erudition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Picasso: The Last Years, 1963-1973,” an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, suggests that this final frenzy was not a facile coda to an epic life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
I found myself irrationally angry about the way T-Mobile convinced the Backstreet Boys to parody “I Want It That Way” with facile sloganeering.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
Miss Adebayo visited and said something about grief, something nice-sounding and facile: Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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