Example sentences for: simple-minded

How can you use “simple-minded” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Clinton's "simple" proposal might be better described as simple-minded, not to mention impractical, useless, and offensive to notions of privacy and constitutional rights.

  • Not at all contemporary, maybe it wasn't the simple-minded nonsense it seemed, maybe a parody of Wordsworth perpetrated by a disillusioned towel copy writer à la J.K. Stephens' celebrated parody of that poet: Two Voices are there: One is of the deep/And one is of an old half-witted sheep....

  • 3) Clinton's focus on guns is simple-minded and would not have stopped the Colorado tragedy.

  • There is a whole class of Italian surnames that were given to foundlings, including variations of Trovato (trovato past participle of trovare to find; trovatello foundling), Proietto (proietto ejected or rejected), Innocenti , and Nocenti (given to all children taken into Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti orphanage; the name was also given to those who were innocent of evil, or simple-minded), Ignoto ( ignoto unknown), and Esposito or Sposito (esposto exposed), which de Felice has found to be the most common name in Naples.

  • Usually these errors sound simple-minded; many are merely careless.


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