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adjective

Facile adj.

Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor. "Order... will render the work facile and delightful."

Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. "The facile gates of hell too slightly barred."

Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant. "I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet."

Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. "Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me." "This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway."

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

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"Facile" Quotes from Famous Books

... adventus hostium non ubi oportuit nuntiatus est, PERICULUM illa sua in rebus dubiis audacia facile EVASIT. ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... of Dickens—his reckless contempt for realistic possibility—need not hinder us from enjoying, apart from his revelling humor and his too facile sentiment, those inspired outbursts of inevitable truth, wherein the inmost identity of his queer people stands revealed to us. His world may be a world of goblins and fairies, but there cross it sometimes figures of an arresting appeal and ...

— One Hundred Best Books • John Cowper Powys

... not only a delightful companion, but he was delightful because obviously open-hearted, enthusiastic, and exceedingly affectionate. To such charms Fitzjames was no more obdurate than his fellows. Lord Lytton, it is true, was essentially a man of letters; he was a poet and a writer of facile and brilliant prose; and Fitzjames acknowledged, or rather claimed, a comparative insensibility to excellence of that kind. Upon some faults, often combined with a literary temperament, he was perhaps inclined to ...

— The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. - A Judge of the High Court of Justice • Sir Leslie Stephen

... them in such a way as to appeal to others, consequently he cannot exert the full force of his intellectuality nor leave the imprint of his character upon his time, whereas many a man but indifferently gifted may wield such a facile pen as to attract attention and win for himself an envious ...

— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin

... OEuvre, ma foi, ou n'est facile atteindre: Pourtant qu'il faut parfaitement sage etre, Pour le vrai fol bien naivement feindre. EUTRAPEL, ...

— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock

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