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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
a cretinous baffoon who gives not just politics a bad name, but free speach as well.
It is wrong to designate this man as cretinous....since being a cretin is curable(it is a medical condition)....this man is an idiot.....there is no known cure for idiocy.
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I think the gist of what I was saying was fairly clear....In any case, the dictionary definition gives two meanings :
cre·tin (kr
t
n)
n. 1. A person afflicted with cretinism.
2. Slang An idiot.
[French
crétin, from French dialectal,
deformed and mentally retarded person found in certain Alpine valleys