cretin
noun
(no longer in technical use) a person with cretinism.
cretins
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pluralof cretin.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Does chick lit propagate a retrograde notion of women as shallow cretins – or reflect their nuanced reality?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 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
