How to Use Cretinous?

How to Use Cretinous?

Cretinous in a Sentence ?
  1. The cretinous man stupidly projected his insensitive opinions on everyone he met.
  2. Protected by cretinous parents, the boy followed in their footsteps by making dumb decisions at every turn.
  3. Facebook deleted the cretinous post because it offended others on the site.

Is cretinous a real word?

very stupid: He made some disgusting, cretinous comments.

What is a cretinous person?

A person considered to be foolish or unintelligent. [French crétin, from Franco-Provençal, person with cretinism (formerly common in Alpine valleys because of insufficient iodine in the local diet), from Vulgar Latin *christiānus, Christian, human being, poor fellow, from Latin Chrīstiānus, Christian; see Christian.]

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