simple-minded
Britishadjective
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stupid; foolish; feeble-minded
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unsophisticated; artless
Other Word Forms
- simple-mindedly adverb
- simple-mindedness noun
Example Sentences
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One is the committee’s single-minded, indeed simple-minded, focus on the direct effect of the proposals on the federal deficit and national debt.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
"This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence," she said.
From BBC • Jul. 14, 2024
Xist consists of RNA, a substance best known for being a simple-minded messenger that shuttles genes' instructions for making proteins to the intracellular machines that make them.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024
In “The Rain People,” a 1969 movie that was his first collaboration with the director Francis Ford Coppola, he earned critical praise playing a simple-minded former football player.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022
It moans and occasionally throws objects around, but is essentially simple-minded and will, at worst, growl alarmingly at anyone who stumbles across it.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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