How to Use facile in a Sentence

facile

adjective

• This problem needs more than just a facile solution.
• He is a wonderfully facile writer.
• What hangs in the air, rather, is the willingness of too many to make those facile comparisons.
  — Zachary Karabell, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2019
• Comparing red states and blue states this way is facile.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 5 Dec. 2019
• The facile answer is to say that the public just isn’t performing enough tests.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
• The facile argument here is that this justifies the high prices of new medicines.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 2 Mar. 2020
• The idea that things were working before this crisis is facile.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 15 May 2020
• This is not some attempt by A Red Orchid Theater to cash in on the facile haunted house craze.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The movie’s brief early scenes, leading up to the kidnapping, tag the three teens with facile identities.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2017
• It’s a book that doesn’t just describe the problem, but offers tools for working through it – not in a facile way, either.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 11 June 2020
• The book, like Williams’s first, is a confused and confusing text, full of clichéd turns of phrase that match its facile conclusion.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2019
• This one seems simple, but politics tends to muddy even the most facile of notions.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 22 Apr. 2020
• Fromage!—but in the world of healthy eating, finding a meal that’s not breaded and covered in cheese is not exactly facile.
  — Derek Blasberg, Vanities, 2 Mar. 2017
• But Holmes was no slouch: a facile mythmaker who brooked no dissent and presided over the workplace from hell.
  — Stephen Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
• It all moves along at a snappy enough pace, but sometimes feels more facile than insightful.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2019
• Molière is not our contemporary in some facile and fatuous way.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2022
• Its script proceeds merely to set up its reveals, which has the effect of shunting the dramatic weight of the movie to its rushed and facile ending.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Many of the more facile claims made by Brexiteers have been disproved, at some cost to Britain’s reputation abroad.
  — Fraser Nelson, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• Still, if Martin’s take on grief is facile, the movie overall is a pleasant trip, and Dean’s doodles — by Martin himself — are a treat.
  — Neil Genzlinger, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2017
• Melville shrank from atheism, and from all facile theisms.
  — John Updike, Hugging the Shore, (1983) 1984
• If the movie’s points can be well taken, its rhetorical strategies are often facile.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• Industry segment, age, and race are all factors that complicate the numbers so many are ready to quote in a facile way.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• Shang-Chi’s central conflict goes beyond the classic one of good against evil, and far beyond the facile one of a son quarreling with his father.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2021
• Here is where some observers balk, contending that the Celebrant’s return to faith after all this seems too abrupt and facile.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
• The social commentary comes in the form of facile, between-song patter from members of the hard-working ensemble.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
• Unlike Race Williams, who praised himself and reminded readers that his shots never missed, the Op was much less facile and camera-ready.
  — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2020
• The problem is, the debate usually devolves into a facile back and forth that edifies no one.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• That movie, too, scrambles any facile race-versus-class dichotomy.
  — A.o. Scott and Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• But Ligon is too subtle and grown-up to be making facile propaganda statements.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• This is an overly facile answer, though, and likely not possible for the vast majority of this cohort.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024