gross generalization
Frequency: 4.52.1 per million words
an obvious and often offensive oversimplification
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Examples (10)
- That's a gross generalization, and it ignores important nuances.
- He made a gross generalization about the causes of the crisis.
- Calling all millennials lazy is a gross generalization.
- We should avoid making gross generalizations in scientific papers.
- Her comment was a gross generalization that offended many people.
- It's a gross generalization to say that art is useless.
- Your argument rests on a gross generalization rather than evidence.
- In hindsight, my tweet was a gross generalization, and I regret it.
- Journalists should challenge gross generalizations whenever they appear.
- Don't make gross generalizations about entire cultures based on a few anecdotes.