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mo·ron (môrn)
n.
A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.

mo·ronic (m-rnk, mô-) adj.
moronism, mo·roni·ty (m-rn-t, mô-) n.

moron [mo´ron]
obsolete term for a person with the highest grade of mental retardation, equivalent to the modern classification “mild mental retardation.”


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He wrote: "My message to the morons who pushed, shoved, poked and hit me from behind before a meeting recently, is that your thug-like behaviour makes the council administration more determined to deliver what needs to be delivered.
The place was full of loud, loutish morons and drunken yobs.
Fat lot of good that does - by then the morons are in bed.
 
 
 
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