Sentence examples for the cretin from inspiring English sources

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the cretin

noun

A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.

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When Borat, the cretin of Kazakhstan, carried a bag of his own feces to the table at a genteel dinner party, the joke lay both in the outrageousness of his behavior and, somehow, in the dismayed — yet still curiously polite — reaction of his American hosts.

One of the groups, a council on manufacturing, had already agreed to disband itself, because its members could no longer justify (to their employees, stockholders, and customers) coöperating with the cretin who said there were some "very fine people" among the torch-wielding protesters who marched through Charlottesville on Friday night, chanting "blood and soil" and "Jews won't replace us".

The cretin cleavage of a harpie, worthy of the great Minoic civilization.

Because, in LB1 and LB6, some of the cretin features are not yet found, not yet described, or hidden by damage, our results also supply a series of predictive tests that could be applied to further finds.

The similarity of the cretin mosaics to those of LB1 and LB6 (where remains exist) imply that these individuals were affected by hypothyroidism or a hypothyroid-like growth disorder, and therefore suggest that it is unlikely that they represent a new species.

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

Mr Farage's response at the time was good: "Have you met the cretins in Westminster?

For six months now, he says, the "cretins" in charge of operations at Vote Leave have been bad-mouthing him.

"But they are so much safer for my children," chime the cretins as they veer across two lanes with mobile phone in hand.

The director, Barry Sonnenfeld, seems too intent on widening the divide between the cretins and the decent people; half the actors spend their screen time rolling their eyes over the antics of the other half.

Obendorf suggests that the cretins, being less mobile, were perhaps left behind when their hunter-gatherer bands moved on, and so their remains are common in the cave.

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