cerebral-palsied
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "“Don’t throw away your Christmas cards,” he [Karl K. Van Meter] said. “We need bushels of them to pass on to treatment centers and private homes where cerebral-palsied children are learning to use recalcitrant muscles.[…]”"
- "JOSHUA, our 7-year-old cerebral-palsied son, rides to school in a wheelchair van, has an instructional aide, and receives daily help from his learning-disabilities teacher."
- "Director Mandoki, who was equally lucid about the sexuality of his cerebral-palsied heroine in “Gaby—a True Story,” stages this cataclysmic encounter with a touching coda the next morning: Nora, muzzily half-asleep on the sofa bed, certainly real and also exquisitely beautiful in cinematographer Lajos Koltai’s painterly lenses."
- "The ballyhooed sex scene comes in the 26-minute curtain-raiser, “Fiction,” in which ’70s coed Vi (Selma Blair) dumps her cerebral-palsied boyfriend Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick) and enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with their black, Pulitzer Prize-winning lit prof, Gary (Robert Wisdom)."