How to Use simplistic in a Sentence

simplistic

adjective
  • His interpretation of the theory was too simplistic.
  • That's a very simplistic way to describe what is the joy for me.
    Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 25 May 2022
  • My kids are still in the phase of eating simplistic food.
    Jackie Cooperman, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • That’s the over-simplistic, but spot-on sum of things with a lineup built for far more.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
  • These tools are simplistic by the standards of 2023 AI.
    Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • So far it’s been simplistic, just line work and dot work.
    Manasi Pathak, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • And this is a very simplistic approach, which is not that hard to break.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But on the other side, there’s just very simplistic takes on Hamas.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The velcro straps work for a retro and simplistic look — one that will likely stick around for a while.
    Thomas Hindle, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In the most simplistic sense, UCLA has gotten its karmic payback in the last two weeks.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
  • And then to some degree, maybe, the M&A and so forth would be slightly more simplistic.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 18 May 2021
  • If your dress is super simplistic, your date can get wild with their prom night fit.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Much of Rogan’s comedy, here, was simplistic to the point of sketched-out.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Lupita Nyong'o's hair is simplistic and timeless with a soft curl at the ends to give it just enough volume.
    Ann Wang, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The boards and pieces are relatively simplistic compared to the full-sized Battleship, but the idea is the same.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2023
  • People have been saying the whole time that her drumming was simplistic, but the band was just guitar and drums.
    Melissa Giannini, ELLE, 1 June 2023
  • Such a strict and simplistic rule is not going to be well-accepted by the public at large.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Here was a 24-year-old scrapper sucking up all the oxygen with a simplistic riff on an age-old plot.
    Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Phoenix will not keep it that simplistic against a player like Doncic.
    Evan Sidery, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • And a scene that follows in which Sam is racially profiled by the police feels a bit simplistic.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Let your walls do the talking, like in this simplistic living room by Civilian Projects.
    Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Details in the fine mahogany and walnut wood at the base level are simplistic.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The cuisine is perfectly simplistic—fish filets with a squeeze of lemon.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 July 2024
  • The simplistic black stool that joins the collection is from a little further back—1963, to be exact.
    Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2023
  • And that balance, in and of itself, is where Randle must grow, and play a more simplistic brand of basketball.
    Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • But again and again, many of these explanations have proved to be simplistic to the point of misleading.
    New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • This Shōgun has many hearts and many points of view, rather than fixating on the simplistic stranger in a strange land story from the Eighties.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Its writing is simplistic at times, and the characters are loud and even grating.
    Ruth Johnson, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Not all of Newman’s movie songs are simplistic or corny, though some certainly are.
    David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
  • And that was a little simplistic because cells are different, right?
    quantamagazine.org, 15 Oct. 2024

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