moron

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You must have been showing great restraint, because calling that jerk a moron is an understatement to the nth degree.

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  1. noun A stupid person; a dolt.
  2. noun Psychology A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.

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  • She sounded like a moron, and she wasn't used to it. —  Lunatics
  • The word moron, along with others including "retarded", "idiotic", "imbecilic", "stupid", and —  LA IMC
  • When he came out of electroshock talking like a moron, they said that he sounds like a Psychiatrist, which explains how Nazi Death Doctors are produced in America ...
  • Now these Bush Nazis who set you up to babble like a moron are going to point the finger and say,
  • You must have been showing great restraint, because calling that jerk a moron is an understatement to the nth degree. —  Latest Articles
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Greek mōron, neuter of mōros, stupid, foolish.

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