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mentally handicapped

adjective as in having an intellectual disability

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And yet in Canada a lot of people, groups like disabled groups or mentally handicapped people who represent mentally handicapped people are arguing that it's discriminatory to allow some people to die and not to allow others.

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Mentally handicapped children could not join, no matter how loyal their parents were to the Nazi Party.

“I am extremely devastated and shattered. It is unbelievable that in a city like Singapore, that is supposed to be a modern city, a mentally handicapped person has been hanged today.”

In the latter, she played the beautiful, mentally handicapped daughter of Olivia de Havilland.

And, back home in Syria, Diaa keeps searching for signs that her POW son might still be alive, obsessively scanning social media reports as she cares for his mentally handicapped brother while conceding there’s “nothing left in Syria except death and devastation.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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