cretin

"Why do you sacrifice your dignity for this cretin?"

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2023

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

Jon Gruden is sports’ latest cretin in our midst.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2021

Instead, she shrugs it off, usually with a clever quip that makes her attacker look like an impotent cretin.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2018

They won’t buy a television, like everyone else, because my father says it turns you into a cretin and emits harmful radiation and subliminal messages as well.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Phoenix improvised a line about cretins wanting prestige, which pleased Audiard so much he wrote it into the script.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2018

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