What is "facilely"

Facile \Fac"ile\a. [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F. facile. Srr Fact, and cf. Faculty.]

1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

   Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful.
   --Evelyn.

2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.

   The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
   --Milton.

3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

   I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet.
   --B. Jonson.

4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.

   Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me.
   --Milton.

   This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway.
   --Prof. Wilson.

5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen. -- Fac"ile*ly, adv. -- Fac"ile*ness, n.

adv. In a facile manner