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facilely


adjective

  1. moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
  2. easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
  3. easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
  4. affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people.

adjective

  1. easy to perform or achieve
  2. working or moving easily or smoothly
  3. without depth; superficiala facile solution
  4. archaic relaxed in manner; easygoing
adj.

late 15c., from Middle French facile “easy,” from Latin facilis “easy to do” and, of persons, “pliant, courteous,” from facere “to do” (see factitious).

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