If you have a burning urge to use "retarded" with complete dick-o-matic immunity, try a sentence like, "the flame retardant chemical successfully retarded the s

If you have a burning urge to use "retarded" with complete dick-o-matic immunity, try a sentence like, "the flame retardant chemical successfully retarded the spread of the fire". You may singe a few eyebrows, that's about it.