simple-mindedly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

simple-minded +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

simple-mindedly (comparative more simple-mindedly, superlative most simple-mindedly)

  1. In a simple-minded manner. Lacking sophistication or intelligence.
    • 1988, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life, →ISBN, pages 71–72:
      The essay is governed by a kind of primitive historicism that single-mindedly and even simple-mindedly strives to identify Hamlet with James.
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