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- adverb In a
simplistic way. - adverb Used to announce or excuse an oversimplified explanation or description.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That, very simplistically, is the ultimate peril that letting the present situation continue holds for all Canadians.
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I had no idea that in 2005 I was going to have what can be called simplistically a female puberty.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law 2010
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It's a pretty easy concept and the site is designed simplistically, which isn't a bad thing.
FanHouse 2009
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Yet strangely, Governor Romney is now campaigning on a blatantly and simplistically anti-European platform.
Edward Goldberg: Romney and His European Straw Dog Edward Goldberg 2012
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Yet strangely, Governor Romney is now campaigning on a blatantly and simplistically anti-European platform.
Edward Goldberg: Romney and His European Straw Dog Edward Goldberg 2012
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Essentially, I'm trying to represent, albeit somewhat simplistically, the levels of interaction of the Latin and Old English texts.
Drawing a Dissertation Mary Kate Hurley 2009
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Bollywood movies seem to have their roots not in 20th century pulp but in oral narrative forms, many of which mix speech & song, which is part of why the musical narrative form "fits". (and surely some musicals have this too, but I don't think Bollywood movies are simplistically rooted in Western musicals.)
Beastly Bride interview wiv me shweta_narayan 2010
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Yet strangely, Governor Romney is now campaigning on a blatantly and simplistically anti-European platform.
Edward Goldberg: Romney and His European Straw Dog Edward Goldberg 2012
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As far as those being dissatisfied … all I can say if, Americans are so accustomed to gore and blood, that they can comprehend the simplistically terrifying.
'Paranormal Activity': Three super-scary alternate endings (SPOILER ALERT!) | EW.com 2009
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It is certainly, as far as the Elders of Sodom are concerned, an ethical retardation, as becomes obvious when that argument defines virtue and vice so simplistically in terms of control and lack of control.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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