Sentence examples for mental deficiency from inspiring English sources

Laws were passed excluding immigrants with a criminal past, a mental deficiency, or a communicable disease.

People who knew her said that they never noticed any signs of mental deficiency.

In summary, there is no evidence of a psychosis or mental deficiency at the present time.

Nor was she surprised by the fact that some pupils equate facial disfigurement with mental deficiency.

Only in a rare disease called lissencephaly ("smooth brain") is a lack of complex brain folding linked to mental deficiency.

He hoped that his work would take the field of mental deficiency far beyond the simplicities of mainline eugenics.

For one thing, Lily suffers from some kind of mental deficiency.

Lili may be the most unworldly heroine ever in a Broadway musical, dangerously blurring the lines between innocence and mental deficiency.

Illinois does not have a law prohibiting the execution of the mentally retarded, but it was his mental deficiencies that saved the life of Anthony Porter.

But her son's mental deficiencies were never addressed.

With the mother of the two sisters who were his victims asking that his life be spared because of his youth and mental deficiencies, Antonio Richardson is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday morning by the State of Missouri.