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adj. - Not having control over urination and defecation.

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Usage examples (33)
  • That is why the word incontinent doesn't mean flying between European countries.
  • For it is not the man who gives way to any sort of pleasure whatever who is called incontinent, but only he who gives way to a certain kind of pleasure.
  • But such, though as much led away as the others, we do not in like manner call incontinent and intemperate, since they are ruined through ignorance and want of experience.
  • Could the current financial crisis do the same for "incontinent" investing?
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