mental deficiency

The glazed look on her face was not mental deficiency.

Whatever his mental deficiencies, he doesn't seem the sort to go down without a fight.

He "considers happiness to be a form of mental deficiency."

Here Goddard made a distinction between two levels of mental deficiency.

Mental deficiency is also common with the disorder, although some patients may have average intellectual capacity.

The English family he studied with the inherited language disorder often had mental deficiencies as well.

"Are you suffering from some sort of I don't know mental deficiency?

His language is of course hyperbolic, but that suggests more the culture in which he has worked for many years than mental deficiency.

The syndrome can also cause mental deficiencies in infants.

There are almost as many jokes poking fun at the supposed mental deficiencies of athletes.

Yet does this fully account for such a bizarre mixture of genius and mental deficiency?

Two years later, in 1479, he had to return home; the reason was probably a mental deficiency or mental illness.

She, on the other hand, found herself treated like a princess, or someone with severe mental deficiencies, by all the household staff.

From 1964 to 1982 he was head of the former Mental Deficiency Division.

By the 1920s the hospital was operating school clinics to help determine mental deficiency in children.

The passion then was proving a connection between "mental deficiency" and national origin among white immigrants.

Physical imperfections are easier to overcome than mental deficiencies.

He was examined by military authorities, who claimed he suffered from a mental deficiency.

Laws were passed excluding immigrants with a criminal past, a mental deficiency, or a communicable disease.

Murphy was among those who thought that societal problems like alcoholism, drug abuse and crime resulted from mental deficiencies.

The latter was conceived of as a form of high-grade mental deficiency.

The progeny of parents with mental deficiencies are not always born with an inherited disorder.

The organization felt he had the requisite physical skills, so they ascribed his failure to excel to mental deficiencies.

I put it down to mental deficiency on my part, but since then I have decided that it was for want of preparation.

Obviously Gaila suffered from the same mental deficiency as the others in his wretched family.