mental deficiency

noun

1. psychiatry a less common term for mental retardation

Example Sentences

Ms. Haley has said that her rival has “gotten more unstable and unhinged” and that he has “mental deficiencies.”

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“Donald Trump has his own mental deficiencies, is prone to temper tantrums and wild rants,” she said in an online statement.

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The problem is that there are a lot of people, including in the mainstream press, who wish to downplay Trump's obvious mental deficiencies as the imaginings of liberal hysteria.

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He recommends “a system for verifying that older drivers do not have any physical or mental deficiencies that would impair their ability to drive safely. Perhaps a certification from the family doctor.”

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The Velázquez authority Jonathan Brown has pointed out qualities of “humor” and “bravura” in these portraits, as well as “remarkably perceptive observations about mental deficiency” and “a kind of smoldering defiance.”

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