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Be facile
adjective
Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy.
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It would be facile to claim that all aspects of foreign policy are ethically straightforward.
It would be facile to restrict myself to 20l, I decide.
It would be facile to say that this is the territory of Kafka because this is not fiction.
It would be facile to say that sex appeal alone landed Fortier an exclusive interview with Robin Cook a few weeks ago.
It would be facile to suggest that Pinter's sense of menace stems simply from the memory of teenage encounters with roving thugs under Hackney railway arches.
No: a whole range of factors are involved in radicalisation, and it would be facile to reduce it to one thing or the other.
Similar(14)
That is facile.
Of course generalizations are facile.
It is facile.
I'm sorry, but that's facile.
That's facile, resonant — and unhelpful.
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