How to Use uneducated in a Sentence

uneducated

adjective

• The men, who worked at the lowest level of the drug trade, were poor and uneducated.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2020
• On top of that, my birth name can sound scary to the uninformed and uneducated.
  — Annie Grayer, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
• Other parts of the email claimed that DeVoe was uneducated and has a very bad lisp.
  — Tandra Smith | [e-mail], al, 30 Dec. 2020
• The story follows the life of Celie, a poor, uneducated Black woman who comes of age in the South during the early 1900s.
  — USA Today, 20 June 2021
• Many are both uneducated and products of the Jim Crow South.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2020
• The greater danger to the public’s trust in science comes not from the uneducated but from politicians and journalists who claim to speak in the name of science.
  — Gary Saul Morson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
• The problem is a lot of people are uneducated on the issue.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Ukrainian was long scorned as the language of uneducated villagers while Russian was seen as the language of the urban elite.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Many are poor, uneducated laborers or farmers who lack a TV, so aren't even sure why they are being bombed. or by who.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Oct. 2017
• For the poor and uneducated, the choice is usually between terrible care or no care at all.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
• The event was pure chaos; the firing was seemingly done impulsively by a handful of the frightened, uneducated ex-cons who filled the British ranks.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The old senile Brits and the uneducated young were those who voted to leave, and those who were intelligent voted to remain.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• As for the spoken word, there are so many instances where people sound uneducated.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Gascon can be heard on video obtained by the station saying that those yelling at him were too uneducated to not interrupt him.
  — Fox News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Having my body judged over the span of the 4 teen-to-woman years has really shown me the human tendency to label and make uneducated judgment.
  — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 3 Apr. 2018
• For the uneducated who automatically assume that the name is connected to the Germans, to Hitler—that is not the case.
  — Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• Hammons learned that Pinault was the uneducated son of a peasant from a small Breton village.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• With three men for every two women, women were kept uneducated and at home.
  — Robert Epstein, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2012
• Some of them are just poor, uneducated people who believe in the American dream.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Feb. 2018
• For all of his self-ridicule about being an uneducated hick, Bird would prove to have the best grasp of the reporter-player relationship of all the Celtics players during my time covering the team.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• Then, in an instant, Arturo’s idyll ends: Wilhelm brings home from the mainland a new wife, an uneducated, simple girl who, at age 16, is not much older than Arturo.
  — Lily Tuck, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• Churchill’s Ella Purnell stars as Tess, an uneducated waitress who quickly finds that drinks, drugs, dudes, and other thrills await behind the scenes of fine dining.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Marie Claire, 10 Jan. 2018
• But while absorbing millions of uneducated North Koreans is a problem for the South, the perils go both ways.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 26 Apr. 2018
• The mills were a magnet to uneducated immigrants from France, Portugal and Poland and their children.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2017
• People uneducated in antiques often share the same misguided ideas about how much old things are worth.
  — Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2022
• And there's too many young people, uneducated young people, with guns.
  — CBS News, 29 Aug. 2021
• Just want to leave this here for the ignorant and arrogant people who have chosen to remain uneducated about what this means for we women who bare this burden.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022
• That is, unless those Americans are poor, uneducated or live in a rural area.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 14 June 2017
• The conventional wisdom is that an uneducated, single mom is destined for a life of mediocrity.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 June 2024
• Even the most astronomically uneducated look up into the night sky and realize there’s something beyond themselves and this Earth.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024