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dumbed down

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(jargon)dumbed down - Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. 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.

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Bush's goals in Iraq have been dumbed down once again to the idea of a country that can govern, sustain and defend itself, we have to ask ourselves: Isn't that what Iraq was before we invaded?
The reason: Ant's comedy isn't gay comedy for gay audiences; it's gay comedy dumbed down for straight audiences.
Fine said education has been dumbed down "far more than we dare admit"; she believed that adults will not want to read literature if they never learn how to tackle challenging texts when they are children.
 
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