He was becoming mentally feeble.
So before my eighteenth birthday they brought in a psychiatrist to see me and he diagnosed me as an imbecile, a mental defective and feeble-minded.
The state of Virginia continued sterilizations until 1972, with more than 7,000 women sterilized for drunkenness, feeble-mindedness, and various forms of mental illness and "immorality" -- for "hereditary inferiority".
Walters, who upon her arrest, was found by detectives to be "feeble", is now thought to have had a mental age of about 10.
In them, she routinely accuses technology of turning the latest generation of teens and 20-somethings into feeble mouth-breathers who'd sacrifice their physical, mental, and sexual health for a hearty broadband connection.
In them, she routinely accuses technology of turning the latest generation of teens and twenty-somethings into feeble mouth-breathers who'd sacrifice their physical, mental and sexual health for a hearty broadband connection.
Clearly this Glaswegian recovering alcoholic is a bit feeble-minded, because it takes a bespoke brand of mental infirmity to confuse personal courage in advancing the human right to cause offence with a penchant for bullying the most vulnerable.
The only resistance offered to Mrs. Eszter comes in the form of Valuska (who is picked up and confined to a mental asylum) and Mrs. Eszter's husband, who is a feeble, isolated foe.
At the time the book was published, Goddard was Director of Research at the Vineland Training School for Feeble-Minded Girls and Boys in Vineland, New Jersey, a prestigious research center for the study of mental retardation.
But in just five paragraphs, the court upheld a statute that enabled the State of Virginia to sterilize "mental defectives" — specifically one Carrie Buck, a young resident of the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded.
