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Cretinous

Cretinous \Cre"tin*ous\ (-[u^]s), a. Having the characteristics of a cretin. ``Cretinous stupefaction.''
--Ruskin.

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cretinous

a. Characteristic of a cretin; very stupid.

WordNet
cretinous
  1. adj. affected with or resembling cretinism; "cretinous development"

  2. afflicted with cretinism

Usage examples of "cretinous".

Exhibiting yet again that cretinous mentality which the gentle reader has, by now, no doubt found excessively tiresome, the pathetic gnome launched himself into the center of the room, clenching his puny fists.

I cursed, threw the knife away, and slammed the stinking lousy cretinous piece-of-shit lock and chain against the grimy stone wall.

They are a decidedly intelligent and sensible people who, despite their natural conservatism, have always been prepared to elect a conscientious, clearthinking liberal in preference to some cretinous conservative.

Then there was another commercial for the Airport Barber Shop, in case you were so monumentally cretinous that you had forgotten about it during the preceding thirty seconds of news.

Her face -- which had been so beautiful just minutes before -- had become a grey, smeared form: her forehead swollen so that she looked cretinous, her eyes pulled into empty slits, her mouth running with saliva from its turned down corners.

If central casting had sent him to an HD producer for the role of an over-bred, cretinous aristocrat, the producer would have sent him back with a blistering memo about stereotypes and typecasting.