oversimplify
To say he is a racist is an oversimplification and simply not true.
It's an oversimplification simply to blame the government.
To make a gross oversimplification, the younger teachers are the most adventurous.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
abstract
anti-reductionism
anti-reductionist
broad brush
broaden
enlarge
enlarge on/upon something
expand
expand on something
expansively
over-elaboration
overgeneralization
overgeneralize
oversimplify
particularization
spec
specification
specificity
specify
split hairsidiom

Examples of oversimplification

oversimplification
Nevertheless, the new planning-control dichotomy he proposes, though a valuable advance, is itself an oversimplification of what must be a multi-channel system.
These elements may be reduced to two research paradigms - at risk of oversimplification, the macro and the micro, or the quantitative and the qualitative respectively.
It is a view based, in the first place, on a misleading oversimplification of the nuances and complexities of different political ideologies of the time.
However, for the purposes of the present discussion, we will treat them as gender markers, recognizing that this is an oversimplification.
The neat division into five discourses, itself somewhat resembling the second, analytical mode, provides clarity but runs the risk of oversimplification.
To just lump them under an umbrella label of ' borrowing ' or ' calquing ' is an oversimplification which obscures the different possible historical scenarios for each case.
It is important to analyze its foundations and to shed light on its own procedures, avoiding both metaphysical vagueness and physiological oversimplification.
Thus, while music culture is flooded by the latest technology, the need for a defence against oversimplification has grown.
The traditional approach is an oversimplification, for two reasons.
These issues have to be carefully studied in the future in order to avoid oversimplifications in the study of hospital utilization.
The target article is aimed at a broad audience forcing some oversimplification.
Such portrayals, however well-intentioned, run the risk of oversimplification.
Running the risk of oversimplification, let us refer to the first view as the exogenous view of institutions and the latter as the endogenous view.
At the risk of oversimplification, we can distinguish between two major approaches among these recent developments.
Here, an inversion of cause and effect and an oversimplification can be read.
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