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- noun Plural form of
cretin .
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Examples
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The flocking instinct of the lizard-brain cretins among us ya know!
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Such virtually thyroidless unfortunates are called cretins (kree'tinz).
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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As in all mountainous regions there are a great number of those unfortunate idiots who, when fully developed, are called cretins, and in their milder form are semi-human, but do not possess intelligence enough to earn their own living.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes , who announced the indictments at a news conference Wednesday, called the suspects "cretins" and described the alleged activity as "a kind of slavery."
DA Says Teens Forced Into Sex Chris Herring 2011
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Either it was you or your people that think like you, either way you "cretins" are all the same.
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What kind of cretins have they got working there ?
"It's The Procedures ..." Laban 2004
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Your opposition to the "cretins" has been thoughtless fanaticism at every turn.
BlueOregon 2009
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If conservatives are "cretins" and "sexist" for noticing sex differences and suggesting that society accept rather than combat them in building civilization, what are these Progressives who seem willing -- for the sake of absolving individual human beings from judgment and culpability -- to reduce humanity to the level of mere animal?
No Left Turns 2009
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If conservatives are "cretins" and "sexist" for noticing sex differences and suggesting that society accept rather than combat them in building civilization, what are these Progressives who seem willing -- for the sake of absolving individual human beings from judgment and culpability -- to reduce humanity to the level of mere animal?
No Left Turns Julie Ponzi 2009
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Your opposition to the "cretins" has been thoughtless fanaticism at every turn.
BlueOregon 2009
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