mental deficiency
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One brother died young of kidney failure after suffering from blindness, obesity, hypogonadism and mental deficiency; the other suffered longer after kidney dialysis machines became available.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
But Dr. Pike doesn’t think a lack of animal imagery marks a mental deficiency in Neanderthals.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2018
People who knew her said that they never noticed any signs of mental deficiency.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2016
"We have no idea what we're signing, in an act of legendary mental deficiency."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2013
He advises me, as between friends, to make a clean breast of it, return the boodle, betray my accomplices, plead mental deficiency and trust to the clemency of the Court.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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