Sentence examples for cretin for from inspiring English sources

To use the word "cretin" for the Prime Minister during parliamentary question time is, however, not the language of mainstream politics.

He lives in a roomy but drab Los Angeles space furnished with only the barest necessities and hangs out with a clique of macho cretins for whom friendship is almost synonymous with butting heads.

"Cretins," for instance, or babies born with cerebral palsy: "Would not early freezing be a true mercy?" For the weak-minded, who might find making such a decision difficult, Ettinger offered a philosophical rule of thumb: Ask yourself, "If the child were already frozen, and it were within my power to return him to deformed life, would I do so?

This range is, however, for cretins of European ethnic origin (mean of 1,300 ml in unaffected individuals).

"These people aren't called the cretins of the Caucasus for nothing".

Mr Black said: "I apologised for calling him a cretin, but I haven't apologised for the other comments because I believe the leaflet was ill-advised".

But whereas Samuel Beckett, say, in Waiting for Godot, makes a joke of it (putting the critic at the bottom of the slush-pile, below moron, vermin, cretin and sewer-rat), for Hughes it's more a superstition or phobia - no joking matter.

When Mr Black apologised for his "cretin" comment, Mr Andrews tweeted that he accepted that.

If Mr. Means is the least bit concerned about being the inspiration for a literary cretin in a summer read, he is not letting on.

She knew I had perverted her cretin son because she knew for a fact he was totally ignorant to sex.

Lacking such a conclusive test, we suggest that cretin anatomy provides many predictions for further testing the status of H. floresiensis.