facile

How to use facile in a sentence

• Unusually, he’s as facile in doing theory to figure out what experiments need to be done as he is in doing the experiments.

  An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence | David H. Freedman | September 3, 2020 | Quanta Magazine

• Each successive act facilely evoked by its predecessor pushes us automatically into the next act of a predetermined series.

  Human Nature and Conduct | John Dewey

• Milly's indifference argued in her a difference from most women, facilely contented as they usually seemed.

  The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece | Anne Douglas Sedgwick

• Changeability is attributed to the feminine, but Maya was not able to shift her mood as facilely as her fiance.

  Rebels of the Red Planet | Charles Louis Fontenay

• She had been willing to be lightly, facilely happy over it like other people.

  The Judge | Rebecca West