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单词 facilely
释义
facilefa‧cile /ˈfæsaɪl $ ˈfæsəl/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINfacile
Origin:
1400-1500 French, Latin facilis ‘easy to do’, from facere ‘to do, make’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The senator is known for making facile judgments on current issues.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A crude or facile narrative technique will inevitably fail to achieve the desired ideological objective.
  • A fifth mistaken approach is the facile assertion that opponents are being inconsistent.
  • During a given project, the collaboratory notices and remembers which of us are good, even facile, at which tasks.
  • Every society must be protected from a too facile flow of thought.
  • It is facile to attribute all childhood problems to poor parenting or social circumstances.
  • It is facile to employ cost of living indices or indices of neo-natal mortality without knowing how the figures are calculated.
  • It muddles facile loathing of a parody bureaucracy with the great issues of statesmanship.
  • Munro never lets you get away with a facile, one-dimensional take.
1a facile remark, argument etc is too simple and shows a lack of careful thought or understanding:  facile generalizations2[only before noun] formal a facile achievement or success has been obtained too easily and has no value:  a facile victoryfacilely adverbfacileness noun [uncountable]
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