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Adjective
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People with phones don’t always have internet access, and many are illiterate.—
Sam Mednick,
The Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2025 -
The crowds who first flocked to view the tapestry, back in the 11th century, would largely have been illiterate and narrative hangings of this nature, with a mix of picture and text inscriptions, were a way to tell stories that everyone could follow.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Look, the game is about first impressions and making decisions that are sort of uneducated.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
31 Mar. 2025
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Similar views applied to immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, whom many Americans regarded as poor, uneducated, and inferior.—
Made by History,
Time,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Related Stories Whoever says this is unskilled work is either ignorant or lying.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Apr. 2025
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Beth and her husband Frank’s willfully ignorant marital bliss is upended when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog that belongs to Gabriel, Beth’s teenage love.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Whether these findings map onto kids who are unschooled in the context of worldschooling remains to be seen without systematic longitudinal studies; anecdotal evidence from the parents in my research suggests mixed results.—
Jennie Germann Molz,
Scientific American,
21 Oct. 2024
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Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.—
Ej Dickson,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2024
Adjective
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His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
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To an untutored lurker, the whole thing seemed like … a frickin’ ballet, or some less dainty choreography, a headlong dance of astounding precision.—
Jody Rosen,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2023
Adjective
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The thought of appearing unprepared or unknowledgeable can be stressful, especially in a big team meeting or in conversation with more senior colleagues.—
Ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
4 Dec. 2024
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Many call center staff were unknowledgeable and some were rude.—
Jessie Balmert,
The Enquirer,
6 Aug. 2021
Adjective
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That said, the inclusion of out-of-home impressions to the national TV sample in autumn 2020 and the subsequent expansion of Nielsen’s OOH measurement have helped the NCAA’s media partners claw back a good deal of deliveries that would have been otherwise ignored in a more benighted era.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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And, of course, speedily deport those who misbehave. — George W. Price, Chicago Our benighted states The only renaming of place that is called for in this age of Donald Trump is the United States of America.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The unlettered Prince has gained in life what Hamlet achieved only in death: his own story shaped on his own terms, thanks to the intervention of a skillful Horatio.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2023
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Busby Berkeley Wrongly taken as a mere ornamentalist—even worse, sometimes mistaken for a fascist—Busby Berkeley was an erotic sociobiologist, an unlettered philosopher in visual music.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
23 July 2022
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“Semiliterate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semiliterate. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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