Adjective

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Comfortable; at ease.

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Requiring little skill or effort.

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Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.

Rich people live in easy circumstances.

an easy chair

Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.

easy''' manners; an '''easy style

* Alexander Pope

the easy vigour of a line

(informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.

Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.

* Dryden

He gained their easy hearts.

* Sir Walter Scott

He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.

Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.

The market is easy .

Adjective

(er)

Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

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Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation

Spurious, artificial.

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Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.

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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.

Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.

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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:whose false foundation waves have swept away

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

(lb) Out of tune.