What is "simpleminded"

Usage examples of "simpleminded".

Vernon Castle, six troopers of the United States Cavalry stationed at Fort Concho, San Angelo, Texas, were mistakenly killed by a misguided ex-Confederate soldier and a simpleminded young man who had been convinced that he was an Indian.

Even though Virgil had been simpleminded, he had been well loved by his family.

The best I can figure, Clell Martin thought that it was still Reconstruction, and one day he took it into his head, either him or that simpleminded kid.

I had a simpleminded kid who thought he was a Comanche Indian fighting the long knives.

Epicurus and his followers started out being simpleminded hedonists by affirming boldly that pleasure and the good are identical, but as they proceeded to delineate the features of a good life, it soon became apparent that other things are desirable and even more desirable than pleasure.

But, like Epicurus, Mill cannot long maintain the simpleminded view that the only good is pleasure.

While they may have been forced by their own common sense to abandon their initial simpleminded hedonism, they are not out of the woods.

I suddenly saw them in Richmond, joking about how they were making fools of the gullible Yankee, Dana, and his simpleminded mick toady.

This thing proves that John Brown was a simpleminded fanatic without an iota of practical intelligence.

Reiko hated for criminals to murder anyone, and Lady Yanagisawa was the mother of a simpleminded daughter who needed her.

Marx himself was too simpleminded a recluse and too full of the validity of his remoter generalizations, and the way in which the rapid integration of capital in Trusts and Kartels was confirming them, to be conscious of the void himself.

Terious was not surprised to see that the tall southerner held his ground, but the continued presence of the great black cat, the simpleminded brute, and the husky swordsman led him to comment admiringly on their unity of purpose.

He sometimes thought it was a tale told to impressionable children, or to the simpleminded who actually listened to the preaching of the imams.

Delighted at hearing that oracles were not yet defunct, and satisfied that they will endure as long as there are in this world simpleminded men and deceitful, cunning priests, I follow the good man, who took me to his tartan and treated me to an excellent breakfast.

It was both simpleminded and a great fault in her, Miss Wakefield said.