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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cretinize .
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Examples
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I have built me a mask of dry earth out of the ground I have built me a man like an existentialist moron of cretinized wood and mud brick well dried. soon enough it will be enough to mention that I have built nothing, and as Gogol is always saying without going anywhere he had left.
A Mess 2010
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Or, as in the Brezhnev period, they were so emendated in a cretinized two-volume edition of Tkachev's works (in whose introduction the Soviet editors also criticized me and my book on Tkachev ” the first in English about him) as to be unrecognizable ” either as essential Tkachevism or as examples of proto-Bolshevism foreshadowing Lenin's ideology.
Lenin & 'The Radiant Future' Feifer, George 2001
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