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- noun Plural form of
defective .
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Examples
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The Nazis used Wiemar social welfare files, after all, to locate and eliminate thousands of 'defectives' and 'inferiors.'
Is That Legal?: Uncle Leo's Kennkarte, Sixty-Five Years Later 2007
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When you're called on that, you observe that "The Nazis used Wiemar social welfare files, after all, to locate and eliminate thousands of 'defectives' and 'inferiors.'"
Is That Legal?: Uncle Leo's Kennkarte, Sixty-Five Years Later 2007
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Not only are the deaf often looked upon as a strange class in the community, but they are not uncommonly known as "defectives," and this is the classification frequently applied to them.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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In this one, rather than sterilizing the would-be parents of potential "defectives," they eliminate the "defectives" directly.
Cary dprickett@indyweek.com 2010
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An instinct tells them that such "defectives" are bad for the survival of the race.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It was largely seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics-the attempt to improve the human race by eliminating "defectives" from the gene pool.
Infowars 2009
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Because if they win, they might make other "defectives" think they can win too.
Latest Articles 2008
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Foundation, the deaf and the blind are grouped as "defectives" along with the feeble-minded and consumptives. [
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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The fact that there are 12,000,000 defectives in the US should arouse our best endeavors to push this procedure to the maximum.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In California, the law also allowed for “habitual criminals,” “idiots,” and “mental defectives” to be forced to have the surgery.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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