simple-minded

adjective

1. stupid; foolish; feeble-minded
2. unsophisticated; artless

Derived Forms

• ˌsimple-ˈmindedly, adverb
• ˌsimple-ˈmindedness, noun

Example Sentences

And “alkalinizing” someone in an attempt to improve their health is simple-minded, fatuous, and dangerous.

From The Daily Beast

But I do want us to understand how wrong and simple-minded our definition of freedom is today.

From The Daily Beast

“This shows you how silly and how simple-minded politics can be—just absurd,” Ford says.

From The Daily Beast

Stone also exaggerates in painting Bush as a simple-minded born-again Christian.

From The Daily Beast

For we are simple-minded creatures, and prone to superstition.

From Project Gutenberg

It had never occurred to the straightforward and simple-minded Vicar that one of his own flesh and blood could come to this!

From Project Gutenberg

Yet it was a subtler art to let his old, simple-minded countryman ignore that detail.

From Project Gutenberg

This simple-minded woman meant that the fairies were the enemies of God and that the priest had driven them away.

From Project Gutenberg

It seduced the simple-minded, and brought the book into the hands of the imprudent and deluded multitude.

From Project Gutenberg