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:

  • Having been told he was too complex for pop music, he was now regarded as too simple-minded to write show scores.

  • However, I've never had any illusions about the unsavory nature of the Kosovo Liberation Army, as the more simple-minded media outlets seem to still hold.

  • 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.

  • This esteem reverses the judgment of Abstract Expressionists who denied Dove's paternity of their movement and dismissed his landscapes as simple-minded.

  • Monday was a day on which the European pundits who hadn't yet managed to get their hands on the story rushed to have their belated say, many of them posing as Old World sophisticates bewildered by the simple-minded puritanism of the United States.


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