simple-mindedly
See also: simplemindedly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From simple-minded + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]simple-mindedly (comparative more simple-mindedly, superlative most simple-mindedly)
- 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.