It has to do with catering to facile answers.
Boredom, perhaps, but that was too facile an answer.
It was a facile answer, but not good enough.
In Washington, where I live, there is a facile answer to such questions.
Sam shook his head, too concerned to come up with a quick, facile answer.
He waited for another facile answer, but none came.
A dozen facile answers came to mind, but Ali shook her head.
Where had that stupid slogan come from, the facile answer of those who thought there were easy solutions to all the world's problems?
"To blame this on the economy is too facile an answer," she said.
To that question there are none but facile answers.