subnormal

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The judge said subnormal intelligence is just one consideration in a competency decision.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2018

He said Evans was not "subnormal", nor schizophrenic, nor epileptic.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2017

“China should accept the new normal of slower trend growth. But in doing so, it should not fall prey to a new subnormal of below-trend growth.”

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2015

Many trials of vitamins and minerals are performed on the population at large instead of on a subpopulation with subnormal levels of those substances. 

From Forbes • Aug. 27, 2014

Sometimes we were accused of biting human children; I didn’t believe that, nor did any of us—unless it was some kind of a subnormal rat, bred in the worst of city slums.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien