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  1. dumbed down

    Simplified, with a strong connotation of oversimplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dumbed down in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dumbed down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of dumbed down in a Sentence

  1. Bobby Jindal:

    It's not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can't be tolerated within our party, we've also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.

  2. Marlin Bontrager:

    Our educational system has(...) dumbed down our society. And we're seeing the effect of that this election.

  3. Edward Zehr:

    I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.


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