crippled

IPA: krˈɪpʌɫd

adjective

  • (usually offensive) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
  • (usually offensive) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
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Examples of "crippled" in Sentences

  • At 11.6 inch .. its called a crippled (no disc drive) BUDGET NOTEBOOK.
  • In American terms, the hospital could be called 'crippled' but not 'disabled.'
  • BUt when the number of people who actually do this is tiny, and there is a perfectly decent work around, using the word crippled is just wrong.
  • "It came up in what we call the crippled mode and we're still assessing what was responsible for that," said Squyres, in an interview yesterday.
  • Hmm, the reason lambdas are crippled is because it's awkward (to say the least) to have an indentation-based function body inside an expression.
  • Ask former President Bill Clinton, who saw his first term crippled after meeting his health care Waterloo, a defeat that led in part to the historical
  • He volunteered to continue the mission despite the fact that he was critically low on ammunition and his aircraft was crippled from the hits it sustained.
  • Because it was a temporary organization, cobbled together from various agencies to whom many of its officials still owed allegiance, it was crippled from the start by pre-existing turf fights.
  • The benefit of the full browser, not to mention the multi-touch environment, on the iPhone is completely lost if web sites start presenting themselves in [crippled] pseudo-mobile WAP-like format.

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