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plural cretins
(pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
(by extension, derogatory) An idiot. quotations examples
When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin. He got very supercilious and condescending […]
1969, Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes
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