adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
mentally
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If you have a slurred voice, people are likely to treat you as mentally deficient .
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They specifically admitted children who were behaviorally aggressive, not mentally deficient , brain damaged, or psychotic.
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The school I was sent to was overrun with colonial children-many described as mentally deficient and put in special schools.
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There is, even yet, a hangover of fear and superstition where the disables or mentally deficient are concerned.
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A mentally deficient or unstable individual was not wanted on the line, even if there was a shortage of men.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As many as 2 million students leave school with deficient basic skills.
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Your diet is deficient in vitamins.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gospel preaching will be seriously deficient if this dimension is omitted.
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How would they react to a deficient health care system?
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It was a delightful, careless room, untidy and rather deficient in comfortable chairs.
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It will shock her, this assumed equivalence with a man so strikingly deficient .
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The capacity of the ram inboard to accommodate her crew was fearfully deficient ....
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The investment appraisal published by the Southern board was deficient in many respects.
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There is, even yet, a hangover of fear and superstition where the disables or mentally deficient are concerned.
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Vitamin E is available from so many food sources that no normal diet could possibly be deficient in it.