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intellectually handicapped

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adjective

  1. mentally handicapped

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Failing in this, we shall at best be but blunderers intellectually, handicapped because we failed to make proper use of habit in our development.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert

It is one of the most rigid and intellectually handicapped organizations in the world, yet it considers itself a bastion of economic ingenuity and righteousness.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel

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