Meanings
adverbsimplemindedly (comparative more simplemindedly, superlative most simplemindedly)
comparative more simplemindedly · superlative most simplemindedly
- In a simpleminded manner.
The idea of containment has been given an all too simplemindedly military definition of requirements at the expense of the political underpinning needed to provide the stability of adequate public resolution in the Western democracies.
1988, Colin S. Gray, The Geopolitics of Super Power, →ISBN, page 118
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simplemindedly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/simplemindedly
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“simplemindedly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/simplemindedly. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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