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
There have always been eccentric, senile and downright simple-minded members of Congress.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023
But to abandon Orr’s tent would be to abandon Orr, who would have been spurned and humiliated clannishly by these four simple-minded officers waiting to move in.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
