feeble-minded

Bell, the high court’s notorious 1927 decision upholding the involuntary sterilization of “feeble-minded” people.

Bell, upholding Virginia’s compulsory sterilization law aimed at the “feeble-minded.”

We are now having to face the fact that this very feeble-minded person is back in charge.

Among the “defects” of others on the survey were wanderer, illiterate, feeble-minded, liar, deserted husband, town pauper, obstinate, alcoholic and bearer of stillborn twins.

The eviction by the state was a catastrophe: Eight islanders were committed to the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded, according to the Maine Coast Heritage Trust.