Defectives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFECTIVES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DEFECTIVE, a person who is subnormal in physical or mental powers
• a person with mental disabilities.
ADJECTIVE:
• imperfect or faulty
• lacking or deficient
• (of a word) not having all the inflections normal for the part of speech.
• having mental disabilities.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• imperfect in form or function; faulty; falling below the norm in structure or in mental or physical function

Words related to DEFECTIVES

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How to use DEFECTIVES in a sentence

• We are now face to face with the startling fact that this army of defectives is increasing in numbers and relative fertility.
• Professor Pellman, of Bonn University, has traced the careers of a large number of defectives, and shown their cost to the State.
• The higher checks to population, as they exist among the better classes of people, do not obtain amongst the defectives taken as a class.
• No encouragement whatever can the State afford to give to the natural increase of population till it has successfully grappled with the propagation of defectives.
• The burden of life would be lessened by nearly one-third if the fertility of defectives could be stopped.
• Many of these conditions are partly congenital and partly acquired, but in the majority of defectives a transmitted taint is present.
• In almost all defectives too, prudence is conspicuous by its absence.
• But this force is absolutely impossible amongst defectives.
• Amongst the defectives it does not and cannot exist.
• The women who will be his companions will be either sterilized by disease or by tubo-ligature, because they are defectives.
• Then each generation would only have to take care of its own moral cripples and defectives, without the burden of the constantly increasing inheritance of the past.
• Otherwise, she is almost certain to bear imbecile children, who in turn are just as certain to breed other defectives.
• It is simply quite illustrative of the absolute necessity for permanent segregation of mental defectives.
• If the same policy is followed through succeeding generations, the number of defectives, of those incapable of taking a useful part in society, will become smaller and smaller.
• Except students of eugenics, few persons realize how staggering is the bill annually paid for the care of defectives.
• In addition to these well-recognized classes of hopelessly defective, there is a class of defectives embracing very diverse characteristics, which demands careful consideration.
• In almost any population, a few defectives are constantly being produced.
• This is particularly true of the high grade defectives.
• There is no lack of statistics as to the various groups of defectives, but these figures cannot be reconciled.
• Various arbitrary rules have been laid down to aid in classifying different grades of defectives.
• While defectives are more apt to commit crimes, in the main this is because their environment is too hard for their machine.
• With the modern care of this sort of defectives, the chance of breeding is growing rapidly less.
• Outside of the employment range, but dependent upon the economy are the defectives and delinquents, the parasites who live on cake and the parasites who live out of garbage cans.
• A class of dependents, defectives and delinquents, supported by society but contributing little or nothing to its maintenance or its advancement.
• The latter states are rare in normal individuals, although they may be rather frequent in certain types of low-grade mental defectives.
• I need scarcely point out the moral danger to the community of so many of these defectives being at large.
• It was also shown that such defectives have little sexual control, and are usually very prolific.
• The investigations of the Committee show that already there is far too large a proportion of mental and physical defectives reproducing their kind.

Similar words containing FECTIVE without suffix s and without prefix de

affective20 defective18 effective20 infective17 refective17 effectives21 perfective20 affectively25 defectively23 effectively25 ineffective22 infectively22 perfectives21 imperfective24 noneffective23 noninfective20 perfectively25 affectiveness24 defectiveness22 effectiveness24 imperfectives25 ineffectively27 infectiveness21 noneffectives24 imperfectively29 perfectiveness24 supereffective27 noneffectively28 affectivenesses26 defectivenesses24 effectivenesses26 ineffectiveness26 infectivenesses23 schizoaffective40 perfectivenesse25 perfectivenesses26 ineffectivenesses28

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