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:

  • 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....

  • But its take on religion is simple-minded: "In this novel one is either a messianist or a nonbeliever" (Jonathan Rosen, the New York Times Book Review ). A few reviewers say he succeeds entirely: "Leave it to a goy to write the definitive novel about Israel" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ).

  • This simple-minded writing misleads readers and slanders economists.

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

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


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