cretinousadj.

1793 Brit. Critic Nov. 341 Mr. F. has likewise been witness to three instances of children born with this complaint, which is indeed generally the case of cretinous children, though the degree of cretinage bears no proportion to that of the Goitre.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 471/2 The..cretinous affections..are striking examples of the effect of hereditary influence combined with that of..situation.

1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 100/1 It [sc. goitre] is certainly, in its endemic form, the characteristic deformity of cretinous districts.

1915 H. H. Goddard Criminal Imbecile 40 There was some slight attempt to imply..that there was some cretinous condition in the family.

1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 654/1 Of these subjects 3 were chosen because they had each given birth to 2 cretinous children.

2002 Geogr. Rev. 92 91 Europeans who lived in limestone regions prior to iodine supplementation were generally goitrous and frequently cretinous.

1871 Gardener's Mag. 1 Apr. 135/2 It may require a Darwin to point out man's ape-origin to the many, but, for evidence of his cretinous and suicidal folly, commend me to the environs of Paris.

1877 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) II. 215 While you still teach in Oxford the ‘philosophy’, forsooth, of that poor cretinous wretch, Stuart Mill.

1916 Daily Mail 26 May 4/4 What words can be found to suit the vilest of them all, the cretinous, crapulous Houston Chamberlain?

1943 P. Larkin Let. 19 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 80 I think they are doing my suit all wrong, the cretinous ani.

1982 Human-Nets Digest V5 #110 in fa.human-nets (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Dec. There'll suddenly be a market to convert files from private obscure cretinous formats.

2009 Independent 7 Oct. (Life section) 4/1 He thinks the population is too cretinous and drugged by television and fast food to figure it out.

1889 M. Woods Rambles of Physician II. 371 The..aristocratic successor of the cretinously-twisted slave Æsop.

1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes vi. 266 Watching a..cretinously eye-rolling announcer on the television.

2008 Vogue Sept. 643/4 What did incense me..was the script's seeming obsession with making Georgiana appear..spoiled, self-promoting, and cretinously stupid.