| As the example shows, bowdlerization is not only dishonest, it leads to dumbing down of language and ideas. |
| Instead of voluntary dumbing down, there's a steady process of public self-enlightenment. |
| Too often the process of dumbing down is associated with the expansion of junk television and trash entertainment. |
| The use of propaganda during the Cold War, for example, led to the dumbing down of valuable political ideas. |
| Change is dumbing down to the people who have an interest in what was there. |
| I have become an expert at dumbing things down, but there are facts that won't simplify no matter how much the user wants them to. |
