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What is a cretin?

What is a cretin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism. [from 1779]
  2. (pejorative) An idiot.
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I tore it to pieces and sent it to the devil, this monstrosity produced by a cretin.
You might be bored stupid and your boss may be a complete cretin, but at least your office is dry.
The cretin, whose eyes caught a glimpse of the cake, laughed, and began to try to reach out her hand to take it.
Only twelve kinds of a cretin would have gone on when faced with anything like this.
Of course, many people have goitre who are not cretins, but there is no cretin who has not goitre.
He lives in a pension house with a family in which the father is physically handicapped and the son is a cretin.

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