simpleminded

Example Sentences

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“Why would we raise pigs here?” he responded, incredulous at my simpleminded queries.

From The Guardian

Corden’s deliriously funny “One Man, Two Guvnors” airs Friday, a slapstick farce about a simpleminded guy who juggles errands for two underworld bosses in an English seaside town in the 1960s.

From Seattle Times

Of course, this is simple science, not simpleminded politics, so we cannot expect anyone, such as President Donald Trump, to be swayed by such statistics.

From Seattle Times

In a country as large as the United States, the use of one word to summarize the material, financial and fiscal life of every city, region, demographic and industry as if it operated as a collective has always been shortsighted and simpleminded.

From Salon

There is a kind of simple nobility to Baron Cohen’s take on Cohen that can border on the simpleminded.

From Slate