facile assumption

collocation in English

meaningsoffacileandassumption

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facile
adjective
uk
/ˈfæs.aɪl/us
/ˈfæs.əl/
A facile remark or theory is too simple and has not been thought ...
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assumption
noun
uk
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition offacileandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Therefore, thefacileassumption, that aircraft will get so much quieter within the next decade or two that the noise will not matter, is false.
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I have always been hesitant about thefacileassumptionthat the introduction of an interest charge will somehow benefit all small companies.
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That is an extremelyfacileassumptionon his part.
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There is afacileassumption, giving rise to much of the rhetoric about ease of testing.
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I am a little worried by thefacileassumptionthat increased world trade will inevitably lead to a better world for the people who live in it.
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Anyone with experience of local government work will think it afacileassumptionthat the services of one department are always readily at the disposal of another.
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That was afacileassumption.
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First, reformers should avoid facile assumptions about what the public wants and will accept.
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It seems to me that we must get rid of certain facile assumptions.
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That is why we reject all these facile assumptions that you can wait until trade is a little better.
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