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feebleminded::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | backward, half-witted, slow-witted |
| Derivation | feeblemindedness |
Examples of feebleminded
feebleminded
You wouldn't expect a moron to run a train or a feebleminded woman to teach school.
From the charlotteobserver.com
That's fairly patronizing and more than a little feebleminded, though maybe he is right.
From the time.com
Meanwhile eugenicists looked for the feebleminded and found them.
From the boston.com
He was wrongly labeled feebleminded and borderline autistic before he received appropriate treatment.
From the time.com
Janice, with her IQ score of 44, was labeled as feebleminded.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Misportraying all cannabis users as feebleminded is akin to portraying everyone who drinks alcohol as violent wife beaters.
From the economist.com
We know you're hard of hearing, Rush, but you can't be deaf to the fact that feebleminded bigots depend on you for much of their intellectual firepower.
From the post-gazette.com
Often the IQ tests that labeled those clients feebleminded were done by Ethel Abernethy, the founder of the psychology department at Queens College.
From the charlotteobserver.com
As far as I can tell, Mooney offers us no plan for reducing the numbers of Republicans, the way Harry Laughlin had a plan for reducing the numbers of the feebleminded.
From the genotopia.scienceblog.com
Articles like his enthusiastic defenses of the Iraq war and his routine takedowns of any public figure he perceives to be sanctimonious or feebleminded are Hitchens at his thought-provoking best.
From the time.com
- Backward: retarded in intellectual development
- (feeblemindedness) severe mental deficiency
- The term feeble-minded is documented in use as early the 19th century through to the early 20th century as a loose description of a variety of mental deficiencies, including what would now be considered mental retardation in its various types and grades, and learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
- Obsolete and unacceptable term describing individuals with mental retardation and an IQ between 50 and 70; sometimes generically used for all IQs below 70. ...
