Adjective : a simple matter; simple tools. ,a simple style. ,a simple gown. ,a simple manner. ,a simple design. ,the simple truth; a simple fact. ,a frank, simple answer. ,a simple soldier. ,a simple way of life. ,simple folk. ,a simple way of thinking. ,a simple substance. ,a simple leaf; a simple stem. ,a simple ascidian. ,simple tone. ,The simple subject of "The dappled pony gazed over the fence" is "pony.". From Dictionary.com.
Noun : country simples. From Dictionary.com.
But you're right: spineless is limp and oversimple. From Wordnik.com. [Hackocracy?] Reference
It's a little oversimple, what I said, but it's like that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2001] Reference
'Like any govt project' is a dangerous and oversimple phrase when speaking of history. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch] Reference
My point is that the joke is oversimple when viewed in light of evidence instead of cliché. From Wordnik.com. [So Who Knows?] Reference
May be is it an oversimple way to think about it, but i feel strange about old people having to prove things in this century. From Wordnik.com. [Robbed yet again] Reference
In "J.stice Kennedy's J.risprudence," Frank J. Colucci manages to define it with admirable precision, debunking along the way the oversimple ways in which J.stice Kennedy has been characterized by people who disagree with his decisions. From Wordnik.com. [The Decider] Reference
I'm making it slightly oversimple as I've not got time to dig deeper. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Without being way oversimple here, but it appears that a very simple explanation is all you can grasp. From Wordnik.com. [News Tom's Hardware US] Reference
It was oversimple, but maybe better to share at the dinner table when competing to show off what we learned in school than state capitals. From Wordnik.com. [WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook] Reference
On the other side, we find the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin) as well as Zizek and Lacan (but not the Lacan of oversimple, Althusserian appropriations.). From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
The oversimple ads are intended as segues to a more in-depth discussion of DunnWell's online, transparent billing and record-keeping system, and of its open bidding policy, both of which are points of differentiation from its larger competitor, SimplexGrinnell. From Wordnik.com. [scaryideas] Reference
There is an absence, perhaps, of colour; it is natural that it should be so in the earlier poems of a writer who proposes aims such as these to himself; his poetry is addressed to the intellectual, and not to the animal emotions; and to persons. of animal taste, the flavour will no doubt be oversimple; but it is true poetry -- a true representation of true human feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc] Reference
The only reason liberals making fun of conservatives is funnier than conservatives making fun of liberals is that you can’t really ridiculously oversimplify something that’s already ridiculously oversimple. From Wordnik.com. [10 MIN OF HILARIOUS REPUBLICAN COMEDY] Reference
It’s oversimple to say that the HQ exists “in his head”; it’s more that the Architect is a quirky but insanely powerful telekinetic who can link you to a dimension in which nothing exists except what he creates mentally out of thin air. From Wordnik.com. [Waid Wednesday #9: The Proposal, Part Two] Reference
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