Synonyms:
eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken
Meaning: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"
Synonyms:
facile
Meaning: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand"
Synonyms:
facile
Meaning: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"
Usage examples
Stale and facile platitudes
Carol had forgotten her facile hopes.
Let all public men tempted and afflicted with a facile, pliable, time-serving heart have honest Brodie at their elbow.
It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant, five times worse than a wife.
Here is a case. There is a phrase of facile liberality uttered again and again at ethical societies and parliaments of religion: "the religions of the earth differ in rites and forms, but they are the same in what they teach."
The Duke of Milan, Ludovic, the Moor, had by his sagacity and fertile mind, by his taste for arts and sciences and the intelligent patronage he bestowed upon them, by his ability in speaking, and by his facile character, obtained in Italy a position far beyond his real power.