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How to pronounce cretin in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms changeling, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard
Type of simple, simpleton
Has types mongoloid
Derivation cretinous

Examples of cretin

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Maxpolitique and others, do you really believe this cretin was ever a real CEO?
From the economist.com
But I resisted the urge to tell her she was a cretin, shouldered my bag and left.
From the nzherald.co.nz
If some fanatical cretin wants to bomb a marathon, how on earth can you stop him?
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Osborne is a smirking cretin with the financial sense of a brain-damaged woodlouse.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Well, lets take out the cretin and his boy general via a Khadaffi type raid.
From the washingtontimes.com
The useless spotty cretin who came up with it should be sacked this morning.
From the guardian.co.uk
The idea being, you cretin, to remember the people who stopped us from being invaded.
From the newsshopper.co.uk
The authors use local stories of cretin-like people to bolster their case.
From the scienceblogs.com
Only a cretin sets the marshmallow on fire, producing the bitter black carbon coating.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
More examples
  • Idiot: a person of subnormal intelligence
  • Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones (congenital hypothyroidism) due to maternal nutritional deficiency of iodine.
  • A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism; An idiot
  • A stupid or mentally defective person.
  • Kret'in/ or /kree'tn/ /n./
  • (derogatory) Central Trains