facile
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It is hard to overstate just how facile this whole enterprise has proved to be.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026
What gets lost in facile critiques of gentrification, however, is its generative power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
While well-intended and admiring, the biography often proves facile, showing difficulty reckoning with Demme’s oeuvre and its deeper political and cinematic lessons.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025
It would be facile and easy to argue that this level of emotion is characteristic of their “intimate male friendship” and their shared passion run amok.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025
R. T. Jones, the engineer who had intervened on behalf of the black man with the Hampton police, had beguiled Langley managers immediately with his facile mind.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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