simple-minded

adjective

1. stupid; foolish; feeble-minded

2. unsophisticated; artless

Other Word Forms

• simple-mindedly adverb
• simple-mindedness noun

Example Sentences

This absurd election season does lend itself to simple-minded thinking.

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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.

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Wolff also encouraged social critics to not be hoodwinked by "simple-minded arguments" that attempt to turn people off from all left-wing politics through generic vilification of bureaucrats.

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"This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence," she said.

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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.

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