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Those quotes give a much better sense of the word's current usage than either dictionary definition, I think. Myself, I find this usage of "facile" grating, preferring Webster's definition, but that's because I spend a lot of time reading Spanish, French, and books from before 01900; Eliot's quote can be plausibly interpreted either way, perhaps showing how the shift began.

>>kragen+(OP)
Facile in modern English means "too easy", like a shortcut that leads to the wrong destination.

This meaning has diverged from French/Spanish, where the word still just means "easy".

>>jacobo+ff1
The fact that you wrote a comment restating my own leads me to suspect that my own comment was unclear. Thank you for clarifying it.