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Definition of Facilely
1. facile [adv] - See also: facile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Facilely
Literary usage of Facilely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1917)
"The authors write facilely, and create a real atmosphere around the action. ...
The first act is a little too clearly "exposition," none too facilely ..."
2. Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916)
"The child's problems in spending money should be gravely and carefully weighed
and discussed, trivial though they may seem. His facilely earning, facilely ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... that the hydrogen on the 7 carbon can facilely form a six-membered transition
state (for the type II split) in which the CH bond axis is directed toward ..."
4. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"Now an international figure, she let her pen respond too facilely to the many
demands made upon it: she wrote numerous didactic and religious essays and ..."
5. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"he could not so facilely Plumb for himself the dolorous enigma of his art.
Her obese countenance Proclaimed his contempt for most of mankind— At their best ..."
6. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1894)
"Only in this way is knowledge reproducible, facilely reproducible. (Mere re-cognition
of a thing is not knowledge unless one can associate it with some ..."
7. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"seen the miracle, that the death of Victor Emmanuel consolidates more firmly the
monarchy ; and the succession from father to son has passed as facilely as ..."
8. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"He did not write facilely nor polish much. A book of verse in young manhood, '
The Hermitage and Other Poems' (1867); a mid-manhood volume privately printed ..."
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