0 the act of making something simpler and easier for people to understand, especially in order to make it more popular:
the dumbing-down of television
Does he agree that that is less a case of dumbing-down than dumbing-out?
It is yet another sign that the whole system is geared towards a mass dumbing-down.
The dumbing-down of science to produce easily assimilated wacky, breakthrough or scare stories is criticised.
However, at various points in the novel the narrator portrays this dumbing-down as a silly and unnecessary self-denial that is not very satisfying.
These critics also blamed labour's involvement in dumbing-down the campaign, which was seen as the trade unions doing anything to achieve power.
