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Part of Speech: imperfect, past participle

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facile

Part of Speech: Noun

Results: 5

            1.                                           Easy                                                         to                                                         be                                                         done                                                         or                                                         performed:                                                         not                                                         difficult;                                                         performable                                                         or                                                         attainable                                                         with                                                         little                                                         labor.                                    

            2.                                           Easy                                                         to                                                         be                                                           surmounted                                                         or                                                         removed;                                                         easily                                                           conquerable;                                                         readily                                                         mastered.                                    

            3.                                           Easy                                                         of                                                         access                                                         or                                                           converse;                                                         mild;                                                           courteous;                                                         not                                                         haughty,                                                         austere,                                                         or                                                         distant;                                                         affable;                                                           complaisant.                                    

            4.                                           Easily                                                         persuaded                                                         to                                                         good                                                         or                                                         bad;                                                         yielding;                                                         ductile                                                         to                                                           a                                                         fault;                                                         pliant;                                                         flexible.                                    

            5.                                           Ready;                                                         quick;                                                         expert;                                                         as,                                                         he                                                         is                                                           facile                                                         in                                                           expedients;                                                         he                                                           wields                                                           a                                                           facile                                                         pen.

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I was dizzy with trying to follow Hunter's facile imagination. - "The Window at the White Cat", Mary Roberts Rinehart.
The weak and facile Mr. Brandon was apt to fall in love, or to fancy that he did so, with any woman he came in much contact with, and she was as unsuitable for him, even more unsuitable, than Peggy was. - "Mr. Hogarth's Will", Catherine Helen Spence.
With facile largeness of censure, it was pronounced a murky subject, sordid, unlovely, morally sterile, an ugly leaf out of some ancient Italian Newgate Calendar. - "Studies in Literature", John Morley.

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