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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a facile description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a description that is overly simplistic or superficial, often lacking depth or complexity.
Example: "While the report provided a facile description of the issue, it failed to address the underlying causes."
Alternatives: "a simplistic explanation" or "an oversimplified account."
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This is because there are far too many parameters hidden behind such a facile description, which describe the crystal field and simplistic descriptions often hide quite substantial distortions from the "real" geometry.
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It's easy to dismiss a whole culture, a whole religion, an entire gender, with such facile descriptions.
"The Pocket Guide" — a five-by-seven-inch seventy-five-page book in which art works are paired with dry, sometimes facile descriptions of how the American government functions — is an experiment in combatting a "lack of interest and engagement in the electoral process among creative professionals," by providing basic definitions of things like lobbyists, gun control, and the electoral college.
This is not a facile question.
It has a facile, cheap tinge.
More a facile go-between for ITV and BBC.
It is a facile way of thinking.
Parliament has been reduced to a facile talking-shop.
From Dr. Lieberman, it's not a facile pronouncement.
Though I admit it's a facile mistake to make.
But "Mockingbird" begins on a facile, slightly desperate note.
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