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Definition of feeble-minded in English: feeble-mindedadjective 1Unable to make intelligent decisions or judgements; foolish or stupid. （人）缺乏判断力的 Example sentencesExamples - These feeble-minded hoodlums have primarily been targeting foreign tourists and women.
- The tone of his voice suggested that he was talking to a feeble-minded minion who couldn't be trusted to tie his or her own shoe laces.
- The results will be slightly inferior to what the most feeble-minded member of each team would have produced.
- People who have a limited amount of money, yet squander it on unnecessary incidentals and leave themselves without the means to buy food and clothing, are not necessarily feeble-minded.
- After all, if you wander past many licensed premises in the early hours of the morning you are likely to hear subdued mutterings which the more feeble-minded are likely to interpret as ghosts.
- Such an argument might win votes from among the feeble-minded.
- They don't own any sign of scientific thinking and they just follow their feeble-minded instincts and make stupid decisions.
- Don't be shy about telling the world the truth about our feeble-minded chief executive.
- It was an easy way for society to lock up girls who were ‘frivolous, sinful and feeble-minded.’
- I scoff every time I hear this but out of deference to my feeble-minded readers who use this as an excuse I will not laugh.
- These notes, where not referential, would have lightened a text that is certainly not for the feeble-minded.
- He's trying to avoid prosecution by claiming he is too old and too feeble-minded to face a trial.
Synonyms stupid, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, dim-witted, witless, dunce-like, doltish, cretinous, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid informal daft, dumb, dim, dopey, dozy, birdbrained, pea-brained, fat-headed, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, muttonheaded, boneheaded, crazy, mental, nuts, nutty, crackers, cracked, potty, barmy, batty, cuckoo, bonkers, dotty, dippy North American informal dumb-ass - 1.1dated (of a person) having less than average intelligence.
〈旧〉（人）弱智的 Example sentencesExamples - Through these means they sought to identify groups they classified as ‘mental defectives’ or the feeble-minded, idiots, and imbeciles.
- After asking respondents their names, addresses, ages and occupations it asks them to list the state of their mental health reporting whether they are deaf and dumb, blind, lunatic, an imbecile or feeble-minded.
- In 1930s Nazi Germany about 350,000 people, categorized most commonly as feeble-minded, schizophrenic or epileptic, were sterilized.
- Such people, said the out-of-sight narrator, were known variously as idiots, imbeciles or the feeble-minded, and lumped in together with the genuinely intellectually handicapped.
- Even less can he tell his colleagues about it; he would lose his credibility and be considered half feeble-minded.
Derivativesadverb If the media were allowed to follow up, as opposed to being cold-bloodedly and feeble-mindedly suppressed, the whole petition phenomenon would have disappeared eight hundred years ago! Example sentencesExamples - Are the noise issues as bad as I have been feeble-mindedly led to believe?
- You can go on mischaracterizing the party as feeblemindedly as you want, but your party shall never, nor can ever, address these problems effectively.
nounˌfiːb(ə)lˈmʌɪndɪdnəs Similarly, his 'weasel' example makes it clear how much feeble-mindedness he assumes in his readership. Example sentencesExamples - Even hardened journalists and academics, long resigned to their toil among the ignorant, have recoiled before the feeble-mindedness of the man.
- As he concludes, and Hornby substantiates, ‘such feeble-mindedness has by now established itself as common sense.’
- He refers to ‘gullible consumers’ and goes on to argue that ‘today's average consumer may be an everyday victim of foolishness and feeble-mindedness in their consumption behaviour’.
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