Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mentally disabled person.
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- noun technical A
retarded person; a person withretardation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Made instead as a vanity piece for retirement aged Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino who looks not only ancient but female, it is indefatiguably retardate.
Fresh-baked Hot-n-Crusty Arbo Minis Arbogast 2009
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Look at how debased the subgenre has become - think Underworld and the retardate school of vampires with guns - can you not in some small way appreciate that this movie brings the subject matter back to first principles?
My Bloodyguard Arbogast 2009
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He may have been a mediocrity, a retardate, a crusader.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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He may have been a mediocrity, a retardate, a crusader.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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He may have been a mediocrity, a retardate, a crusader.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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The blog where the retardate installed a Kryptonite lock as handlebars is called the Zlogblog, not the Zogblog.
Owning Your Bike: All You Haters Hold the Mayo BikeSnobNYC 2008
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A man who will exchange value for the public dollar, not some tax fixated retardate.
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In his confession, this man was -- was borderline mental retardate.
Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court 1998
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Standees parted to make a path for us into the Grand Ballroom, and Nemur waved to the reporters and photographers who had come to hear at first hand about the startling things that had been done with a retardate adult in just a little over three months.
Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 1966
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Watte vocat, cut Tho m s venit, neque Sym me retardate Bette que GiBBE fimul Hykke venire i\iient.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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