in black and white
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(particularly of documents) in a form that is written or printed
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I want to see it in black and white.
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***a black-and-white subject or situation is one in which it is easy to understand what is right and wrong
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She is still a champion of oversimplification, seeing issues in black and white.
She sees everything in black and white.
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***using equipment that produces only black-and-white pictures
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A movie filmed in black and white.
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used to refer to a perspective that categorizes things as either good or bad, without considering anything in between
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Sarah has a black and white perspective on relationships; she believes they are either perfect or doomed to fail.
John's black and white thinking leads him to categorize people as either trustworthy or untrustworthy, without considering shades of gray.
