cretin
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Mr. McNally originally tore into Mr. Corden, calling the comedian a “tiny cretin of a man” for two separate incidents where he was cantankerous with the wait staff.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
It has that in common with Hulu's "The Dropout," although Amanda Seyfried initially introduces Holmes as a visionary, not a cretin.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2022
Jon Gruden is sports’ latest cretin in our midst.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2021
It has come to my attention that Playboy Germany has come out with an article in which I have called Tarantino a cretin and consider his films garbage.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2018
Mr. Gonzalez, my “boss,” is rather a cretin, but is nonetheless quite pleasant.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Pragmatic, good-hearted Ava is the film’s moral center, the one disgusted enough to realize that she, her friends and Southport’s leadership are all cretins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
You start to believe that Daniel may be right, that the universe is organized to reward amoral, shallow cretins like him.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013
Watching them come up with the campaigns, pitching their very souls to cretins, is the pleasure last season kept holding out to the viewers, then pulling back for yet more office drama and unsatisfying death.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
In my opinion, only cretins celebrate their failures.
From Inc ● Sep. 5, 2012
After I use the bathroom for the billionth time, I finally find Lorena in the back porch, surrounded by a circle of cretins who are way too old to be at a high school party.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
Vocabulary lists containing cretin
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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