Sentence examples for means retarded from inspiring English sources

Which means retarded.

In one routine, he tells us how a mother of a child with learning disabilities complained to him post-show about his use of "the r-word" – by which she means "retard".

Based on the results from the VLF scattering from red sprites, Rodger and Nunn (1999) have shown that the internal electrical structure in a sprite could lead to four combinations of amplitude and phase perturbations (Aθ = ++, −−, −+, +−) of early VLF events, where + in amplitude means an increase, − in amplitude means a decrease, + in phase means advance and − in phase means retard.

According to Merriam-Webster, the word "retarded" means: slow or limited in intellectual or emotional development or academic progress.

When I say gay, I mean... retarded".

A multifactorial approach that incorporates established interventions affords our best means to retard the progression of diabetic nephropathy.

Results to date indicate that the laser heating process has great potential as a means to retard fatigue crack growth in aluminum sheet, and thus can improve the life of aircraft skin structures.

In our household, being retarded means something different.

But ever the optimist, I also know that in our household retarded means......never realizing the negativity behind the word "retarded"....never knowing the insensitivity surrounding the word's usage....never realizing the ignorance of people....never knowing how other people view you.

"Mentally retarded meant our children weren't being lumped together with offices for mental health or alcoholism".

But the justices left it up to the states to define what "retarded" meant, and this has proved so difficult that on March 3rd the issue came before the court again.A Florida man named Freddie Lee Hall (pictured) was convicted in 1978, along with an accomplice, for the rape and murder of a pregnant woman and the murder of a police officer.