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Meanings of cretin in English

Portuguese
idiota
Catalan
tanoca

A person of subnormal intelligence.

      idiota
      Usage of cretin in English
      1
      Good, then, that the cretin should lead him to his own goal.
      Blood and Bone
      2
      I was once called a cretin on live radio, writes Shane Hegarty.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Some cretin psychoanalyst would attempt to comprehend the singularity of his worldview.
      A Confederacy of Dunces
      4
      Even the cretin acted in good faith according to his parts.
      Blood Meridian
      5
      At seventeen months the child presented the typical appearance of a sporadic cretin.
      Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
      6
      According to those cretin marines there could be only one witness.
      Orb Sceptre Throne
      7
      They're sequestrated, you cretin, they don't even know they're your people any more.
      The Reality Dysfunction
      8
      Debellows is a first-class cretin when it comes to women in combat roles.
      James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
      9
      Tripped and fell into a vat of glue, the clumsy cretin.
      Faerie Wars
      10
      Could this cretin truly be stalling to save his own skin?
      Mech
      11
      Don't tip the little cretin with the knife and nightie act.
      Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
      12
      Every crank's whim, every cretin's philosophy, is fired at him first of all.
      Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
      13
      The others were so far ahead of him that he felt like a cretin.
      Ringworld
      14
      The cretin is a travesty on the human being in body, mind and character.
      The Foundations of Personality
      15
      If he doesn't ask you out again, he's a cretin.
      The secret life of ceecee wilkes
      16
      It has a certain artistic merit that even a cretin like me can appreciate.
      Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
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