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be facile
adjective
Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy.
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Comparisons between two foreign policy challenges can be facile.
But to dismiss targetneutral as a PR stunt because of BP's shortcomings elsewhere would be facile.
It's trying not to be facile about it, trying not to be alarmist.
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.
Similar(6)
That is facile.
Its lyrics are facile.
Of course generalizations are facile.
It is facile.
Criticisms such as this are facile.
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