adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
mentally
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Reflective thinking is not beyond the capacity of any but the most severely mentally retarded .
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He looks after the mentally retarded man, Lennie, and their relationship is a strange one.
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Roach had no previous record of violence and was mentally retarded .
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There is another kid here who is probably mentally retarded .
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The children are treated as mentally retarded back home, simply because they don't have parents.
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They're treated as if they're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder.
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Thousands of children in similar Quebec facilities were falsely labelled mentally retarded in the 1950s.
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His catechist was also providing outings to parishes where liturgies adapted for mentally retarded persons were being held.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In a way, Kenneth was retarded .
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Let me show you that all men aren't as cruel and immature as your retarded merchant banker.
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Mine the art of the cripple, the retarded , the autistic, not the beautiful and whole.
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Roach had no previous record of violence and was mentally retarded .
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The children are treated as mentally retarded back home, simply because they don't have parents.
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Thousands of children in similar Quebec facilities were falsely labelled mentally retarded in the 1950s.
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To even the most politically retarded this is a nonsense.