subnormal

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Following years of pressure and campaigning, the 1981 Education Act enshrined inclusivity in law and the term "educationally subnormal" was abolished as a defining category.

From BBC • May 19, 2021

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

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2018

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

Then, Keynes said a depression was a "chronic condition of subnormal activity for a considerable period without any marked tendency towards recovery or towards complete collapse".

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2013

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