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  • noun Plural form of cretin.

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Examples

  • The flocking instinct of the lizard-brain cretins among us ya know!

    Think Progress » Dobbs Defends His Birther Advocacy: ‘Seems To Me Still A Perfectly Commonsense Question’ 2010

  • Such virtually thyroidless unfortunates are called cretins (kree'tinz).

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • 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

  • 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

  • Either it was you or your people that think like you, either way you "cretins" are all the same.

    Translation of Bush Doublespeak Speech 2006

  • What kind of cretins have they got working there ?

    "It's The Procedures ..." Laban 2004

  • Your opposition to the "cretins" has been thoughtless fanaticism at every turn.

    BlueOregon 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • Your opposition to the "cretins" has been thoughtless fanaticism at every turn.

    BlueOregon 2009

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