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What does facile mean?

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Adjective
  1. Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy. [from 15th c.]
  2. (now rare) Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with. [from 16th c.]
  3. Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.). [from 17th c.]
  4. Lazy, simplistic (especially of explanations, discussions etc.). [from 19th c.]
  5. (chemistry) Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
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The opening-half exchanges gave little indication that Sligo would score such a facile victory.
Making a judgement based on his outer crust you might assume he could be facile and lightweight in a clever kind of way.
It's also an utterly facile argument that successful competition is somehow linked to the freedom to use foul language, as you suggest.
It trades on facile ideas about city and country, youth and age, boys and girls.
In each, a few images are artlessly patched together, their Dada spirit in keeping with their facile, throwaway humor.
Often, they swallow the facile lie that victims of terror are somehow culpable.

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