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- adverb In a
simpleminded manner.
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Examples
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It's not that stereotypes offer nothing to fiction or are so outmoded and offensive that they should be verboten, but that one should not treat with them simplemindedly or unconsciously.
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But then, one should do very little simplemindedly, in writing or in life.
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After all, it is easy to simplemindedly focus on whether Chen or Ma or both should step down, and to moralize cheaply on it.
The Politics of Persons Michael Turton 2006
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From a theological and sociological perspective, it must be an excuse to simplemindedly say, “my genes made me sin”, but genes and other physical factors do matter.
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After all, it is easy to simplemindedly focus on whether Chen or Ma or both should step down, and to moralize cheaply on it.
Archive 2006-11-01 Michael Turton 2006
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While some might simplemindedly think that all disputes could be resolved at the point of a knife, others had learned to be more subtle.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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While some might simplemindedly think that all disputes could be resolved at the point of a knife, others had learned to be more subtle.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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And by "reason" he means "simplemindedly declaring that anything that conflicts with the Bible must be false, so I don't have to actually make a substantive argument about any subject I just have to refer to the Bible."
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As simplemindedly pleasing as it might be to defuse SSM debates by letting the religious sorts have new power here, it wouldn't work at all well.
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They are stuck simplemindedly into this mindset where the concept of THE PARTY, and its "ascendancy" trumps everything else: regardless of whether "The Party" means much of anything very different from "the Other Party".
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