simple-minded
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
Catton resembles one of those teachers who can take a student’s simple-minded question and, without condescending, shape it into an ingenious one.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023
The woman, having told her, had not known what else to say, and she stared at Florence in simple-minded pity.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
