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simple-minded

Speech parts

1. simple-minded - Adjective

2. simple-minded - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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simple minded

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Examples

It's stupid to have a simple-minded view. Jeremy Paxman

[...]the simple-minded positivism that believes it has found a firm ground of certainty if it only excludes all mental phenomena from consideration and holds fast to observable facts. Hannah Arendt

Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard. Iain Banks

In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Be patient with the belligerence of the simple-minded. It is not easy to understand that one doesn't understand. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves! Osbert Sitwell

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