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feebleminded

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Adj.1.feebleminded - retarded in intellectual development
half-witted, slow-witted, backward
archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
retarded - relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded"
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The purported link between feebleminded unwed mothers and their illegitimate children cast a pall over all adoptions, and even popular magazines warned adoptive parents against the risk of 'bad heredity.
"Put up" on platforms: a history of twentieth century adoption policy ... by Kahan, Michelle / Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Any expectation that a 70,000-word document would streamline the existing 97,000 pages of EU regulations is feebleminded.
Surrendering sovereignty by Hoar, William P. / The New American
In societies as different as those of Egypt and Malaysia, men's school curricula still stress religion, literature, law and the "old" engineering tracks; women, because they are considered too feebleminded or otherwise vulnerable for such pursuits, have for decades been "shunted" into medicine, business administration and computer technology--imagined by men to be just glorified clerking, since it involves a typewriter keyboard.
The impossible imperative? Conjuring Arab democracy. (Quarterly) by Garfinkle, Adam / The National Interest
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