as in uneducated
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Recent Examples of unknowledgeable
The thought of appearing unprepared or unknowledgeable can be stressful, especially in a big team meeting or in conversation with more senior colleagues.
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Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
Many call center staff were unknowledgeable and some were rude.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 6 Aug. 2021
One unknowledgeable employee can cost Target $1,000 in a single, unrealized sale (that would be one iPhone 12 Pro).
—Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
Yeah, for anyone who’s unknowledgeable enough to have that preconception, this was a great opportunity to show Malcolm as a father and as a husband and reflect on-screen a human being people could connect with.
—Chris Murphy, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2021
Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
Many call center staff were unknowledgeable and some were rude.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 6 Aug. 2021
One unknowledgeable employee can cost Target $1,000 in a single, unrealized sale (that would be one iPhone 12 Pro).
—Bryan Pearson, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
Yeah, for anyone who’s unknowledgeable enough to have that preconception, this was a great opportunity to show Malcolm as a father and as a husband and reflect on-screen a human being people could connect with.
—Chris Murphy, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unknowledgeable
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So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté.James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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Anyone who says she wasn't properly screened is either ignorant or has an agenda.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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Who would go out of their way to remain ignorant in the face of an informative lecture on bunker oil?Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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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
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Blessed with a harsh, untutored, yet inimitably soulful voice, MacGowan forged a blend of traditional Irish folk music and punk rock that was later mimicked outright by bands the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly, and left a clear influence on acts such as Gogol Bordello and Mumford and Sons.Andrew Barker, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
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In 2024, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were found to be illiterate, while 54 percent of adults had a literacy below a sixth grade level, .Jasmine Laws, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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And the popularity of these economically illiterate policies (not including the tax cuts) could indeed be very harmful, especially as trust in economic experts continues to fall.Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 25 Sep. 2024
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And this is just a small sampling of the kind of far-right legal reasoning that routinely escapes this benighted court.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
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In its 50th anniversary year, the storied fantasy role-playing game is now making a long-overdue, and noteworthy, correction to its scientifically benighted treatment of race.Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024
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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
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Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
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For their part, the Russians considered the Mizrahim—indeed, most Israelis—loud, uncultured boors.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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Inserting two distinct forms of the gene into clusters of uncultured cells, the team discovered that the form of NOVA1 found in H. neanderthalensis created bumpier blobs of brain tissue when cultured, while the form of NOVA1 found in H. sapiens created smooth, spherical clumps.Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023
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“Unknowledgeable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowledgeable. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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