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- adjective Made
condescendingly simple .
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Examples
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I know this because For One More Day struck me as so dumbed-down – even for Albom – that it fell below the level of the sixth-grade books I once edited for a test-prep company.
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The Host offers further evidence of the Mitch Albom-ization of America — the glut of dumbed-down books masquerading as profound or at least intelligent.
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Hotel restaurants often fall into one of three categories: Mass-produced all-inclusive buffets; dumbed-down, bland takes on local specialties; or uninspired foreign fare think insipid Italian.
The Daily Meal: Who Can Blame Them: 8 Celebrity Chefs' Caribbean Outposts The Daily Meal 2011
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Text books, even those not promulgated directly by religious fanatics, tend to be cursory, dumbed-down, and are often influenced by the political or religious beliefs of those who prefer to revise history rather than educate.
Think Progress » Home-school textbook market dominated by books skeptical of evolution. 2010
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It had to be de-christianized to get funded, and it had to be dumbed-down in order to be artistically successful as amovie.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ongoing Debate Over Jewish Fantasy Literature 2010
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Hotel restaurants often fall into one of three categories: Mass-produced all-inclusive buffets; dumbed-down, bland takes on local specialties; or uninspired foreign fare think insipid Italian.
The Daily Meal: Who Can Blame Them: 8 Celebrity Chefs' Caribbean Outposts The Daily Meal 2011
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Hotel restaurants often fall into one of three categories: Mass-produced all-inclusive buffets; dumbed-down, bland takes on local specialties; or uninspired foreign fare think insipid Italian.
The Daily Meal: Who Can Blame Them: 8 Celebrity Chefs' Caribbean Outposts The Daily Meal 2011
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That's what we owe CNN, FOX, et al. who give us 24/7 dumbed-down generic news: citizens too stupefied to have a clue about anything.
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Hotel restaurants often fall into one of three categories: Mass-produced all-inclusive buffets; dumbed-down, bland takes on local specialties; or uninspired foreign fare think insipid Italian.
The Daily Meal: Who Can Blame Them: 8 Celebrity Chefs' Caribbean Outposts The Daily Meal 2011
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The Republican public has been so dumbed-down that only a flaming racist will appease them.
Think Progress » Hawaii considers legislation to ignore birthers. 2010
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