"But they just wouldn't ignite – they're already fire-retarded for use as flooring".
Many a well-meaning person has innocently used words like "Negro" and "retarded," for example, and one is long gone, the other (I hope) is on the way out.
But if the movement is retarded it must necessarily be retarded for an infinite time.
The Catholic church kept Europe economically retarded for centuries.
The term "retarded," for children deemed to have limited ability, comes from the early-20th-century practice of holding back (retarding) those who read below grade level.
Among the under 30 set, "retarded" is regularly used as a synonym for excessive intoxication.
After making a mistake at a new job, my then boss asked if I was "a retard". Among the under 30 set, "retarded" is regularly used as a synonym for excessive intoxication.
Existing state law uses "mentally retarded" in regulations for educational and social services, commitment to state facilities, and criminal punishment.
Moreover, while various factors (liver disease, malnutrition, and Antabuse, a drug recently developed for use in the treatment of alcoholism) will vigorously retard alcohol metabolism, nothing yet known to science can significantly increase its tempo.
These results suggest the possibility for use of other botanical antioxidants as well as dietary polyphenols for delaying the onset or retarding the progression of AD.
If she apologized to him for using "retard" to slam the president, David would say, "It's OK Ann, you didn't mean it".
