The phrase "a bit facile" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is overly simplistic or superficial, often in a critical context.
Example: "While the argument presented was interesting, it felt a bit facile and did not address the complexities of the issue."
Alternatives: "somewhat simplistic" or "rather superficial."
This explanation sounds a bit facile; the same policy was in effect, and drew wide notice, last year as well.
A. In my mind it's a bit facile to say that Walter White is a good man who was left with no other recourse.
Mitchell presents a man identifying as a woman, and it risks seeming a bit facile in its dismissal of trans identities.
But there is also something a bit facile about the plot, which doles out surprises a little too eagerly and addresses some of its sadder implications with a brio that feels glib and insensitive.
To begin with, it's a bit facile to frame this story as a competition between "the crowd" and "the experts," since the official investigation wasn't relying on a couple of experts, but rather had its own crowd at work, one made up, in Bilton's words, of "thousands of local and federal officials".
The reality is a bit more complicated than that slightly facile explanation.
It's when the film traps Jones inside his lonely rock star purchase, the isolated mansion with a history, that the film gains a bit of cerebral Van Sant power and transcends the facile wig pic problems.
It stands there a bit tentatively, uncertain of exactly how close to get to facile stereotypes.
And while the presumption that a woman can be either brainy or beautiful, or in this case, good or thin, but not both, is a bit primitive, the series has humor and charm beneath its facile message, in large part (no disrespect intended) to a subtle, winning performance by Ms. Elliott.
In commenting on the Bale spoof, Ben Child of The Guardian wrote: "Personally, I tend to find Family Guy a bit hit and miss, but the US comedy's rather facile flashback formula does at least make it easy to chuck in the topical references".
