facile
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I found myself irrationally angry about the way T-Mobile convinced the Backstreet Boys to parody “I Want It That Way” with facile sloganeering.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2026
That this is all unfolding at a convent is an obvious irony, though as handled here it isn’t a cheap or facile one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
While well-intended and admiring, the biography often proves facile, showing difficulty reckoning with Demme’s oeuvre and its deeper political and cinematic lessons.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025
A facile “Prophecy” reader might joke that the channel is substituting spaceships for dragons.
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2024
Lost and bewildered though I was I could contain myself no longer and I said sharply there was not too little care but too many thieves, and saw them nodding in facile agreement.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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