cretinism
Example Sentences
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The late Gore Vidal explained that one of his ambitions as a historian and novelist was to determine “when the great cretinism began in the United States…when people got really dumb.”
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
Neither cretinism, Laron syndrome nor Down's syndrome duplicate the full suite of features.
From Nature ● Oct. 21, 2014
Insufficient amounts of iodine in the diet can lead to goiter, cretinism, and many other disorders.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
I was reduced, during her book’s final third, to puddle-eyed cretinism.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2012
True, he did not prostrate himself before the idols of the conventional mob, nor did his sacrificial fires burn on the altar of mediocrity and cretinism.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman
