oversimplify v. t. To simplify excessively so as to distort or misrepresent; of facts, assertions, or communications; as, Don't oversimplify the rules.
... MORALS. There has been throughout the history of ethical theory a tendency to oversimplify life by cramping it into the categories fixed by reason. Reflection tends to set up certain standards which the infinite variety of human experience tends to outrun. In the mere fact of setting up generalizations, ... — Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman
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