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US
/ɹiˈtɑɹdəd, ɹiˈtɑɹdɪd, ɹɪˈtɑɹdɪd/
]
[ UK /ɹɪtˈɑːdɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪtˈɑːdɪd/ ]
NOUN
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people collectively who are mentally retarded
he started a school for the retarded
ADJECTIVE
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relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development
providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded
How To Use retarded In A Sentence
- In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
- I may be somewhat easy, but I am not without a modicum of self respect. watch me as I choose to sleep with an uneducated redneck over you, simply on the grounds that he's too much of a gentleman to say such things in my general vicinity. that in itself makes the 30-minute drive a non-issue. your pool table and your parents 'money do nothing for me the way his shitty crack shack does. silly little fuckwit. speaking of fuckwits, isn't it funny how WRITING the word fuckwit is so much more funny than SAYING it? go on! say it! isn't it weird and retarded? ps: the funk is gone. Dragonwench Diary Entry
- They managed to shift about half of the mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed patients to homes and less restrictive programs.
- Basically, most things that we can tax in this way have clearly defined negative externalities (you know, 1: 1,000,000 kids go retarded for each barrel of toxic sludge, so you slap a cost on that and pass it on to the guy who makes the sludge), and a clearly definite positive internality. Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Booze Taxes
- The only place at school where Hope felt secure was the special-ed classroom, where she helped the retarded kids learn their reading and math.
- And “retard” is a pejorative term used to dehumanize the mentally retarded. Matthew Yglesias » Does Anybody Know How to Do Development?
- The imperialists are a bit mentally retarded but they will have to learn what the use has been of their 20 years of hostility and struggle against us. INAUGURATING HEALTH CENTER IN LAS TUNAS
- He was also an adolescent with retarded social development, a Peter Pan who never grew up.
- Jason, of course, prefers the "all-dressed" variety, which does not even exist in this retarded city. Archive 2007-01-01
- But the strategy we have to use in stopping them is shaming and brow-beating the fat, retarded knuckle-draggers who buy every single issue of the "Summer Event". Is Marvel preparing for a ‘Siege of Asgard’? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment