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having or showing a lack of depth of understanding or character
- the movie takes a facile look at what happens when teens enter into serious romantic relationships
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involving minimal difficulty or effort
- a few early facile victories misled the country into thinking that the war would be short and relatively painless
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The first known use of facile was in the 15th century
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