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

What gets lost in facile critiques of gentrification, however, is its generative power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

“Ezra” could easily tip into melodrama, but Goldwyn sidesteps that with a rather facile ending, seemingly skipping a story beat in the denouement.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024

I’d argue that it falls squarely inside the latter; its revelations about gender, sexuality and identity tend toward the obvious, and sometimes veer into the facile.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Burr’s facile shift in his allegiance, the first in what would be several similarly agile switches during his career, captured Hamilton’s attention and produced his first recorded anti-Burr remarks, questioning Burr’s lack of political principle.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis