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simple-minded

adjective as in dumb

adjective as in imbecile

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to simple-minded, such as: arrested, behind, delayed, dense, dull, and feeble-minded.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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