anencephalic

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Adjective

anencephalic (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting anencephaly.
  2. (slang) Stupid, brainless
    • 1988 December 11, Susana Darwin, “Keep Editing, Rita Mae”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 10:
      If Rita Mae Brown were an exceptional writer, I might be more willing to give an ear to her pontificating [] But even as a pulp writer, Brown will have to treat lesbians as more than a bunch of anencephalic semi-literates who will sanctify her name forevermore. We have to have the guts to say, "Keep editing, Rita Mae; paper is cheap and we expect better!"

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