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cretin

noun as in stupid person

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Another author mentions a cretin who could tell exactly the birthdays and death-days of the inhabitants of his town for a decade.

The poetical whim of Cretin, a French poet, brought into fashion punning or equivocal rhymes.

The cretin, whose eyes caught a glimpse of the cake, laughed, and began to try to reach out her hand to take it.

The cretin was the one variety of the human species with which the commandant had not yet come in contact.

Benassis himself, after a close scrutiny of the dull eyes and corpse-like face, gently took the cretin's hand and felt his pulse.

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

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