Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being facile, or easy or compliant.
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- noun
superficiality ,glibness
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Examples
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Your writing challenges Rob's for facileness, and I do not mean that as a criticism.
Obama's Most Progressive Act Yet; Solidarity With the Chicago Factory Worker Sit-in 2008
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From what I know of today's younger generations, I'm not so sure that they're facileness with new technologies has anything to do with their schooling.
Navigating the Lag of Death Clark Aldrich 2005
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And also, to be sure, self indulgence, banality and phenomenological facileness is endemic to perfomance art - which this person's art seems to be a species of.
The Guardian World News Adrian Searle 2011
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But hipster critics also saw a facileness in the way he attracted legal trouble and then made it part of his act.
Chicago Reader 2010
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But hipster critics also saw a facileness in the way he attracted legal trouble and then made it part of his act.
Chicago Reader 2010
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More here from Offside: "Structured in the framework of a situational comedy, the film's deceptive facileness proves to be its most irresistibly potent weapon in a brewing (and perhaps, inevitable) ideological revolution, upending the laws of inequitable social convention into a rote reflection of its own incomprehensible - and untenable - contemporary absurdity."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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But hipster critics also saw a facileness in the way he attracted legal trouble and then made it part of his act.
Chicago Reader 2009
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But hipster critics also saw a facileness in the way he attracted legal trouble and then made it part of his act.
Chicago Reader 2009
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More here from Offside: "Structured in the framework of a situational comedy, the film's deceptive facileness proves to be its most irresistibly potent weapon in a brewing (and perhaps, inevitable) ideological revolution, upending the laws of inequitable social convention into a rote reflection of its own incomprehensible - and untenable - contemporary absurdity."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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More here from Offside: "Structured in the framework of a situational comedy, the film's deceptive facileness proves to be its most irresistibly potent weapon in a brewing (and perhaps, inevitable) ideological revolution, upending the laws of inequitable social convention into a rote reflection of its own incomprehensible - and untenable - contemporary absurdity."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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