as in ignorant
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books
an untaught artist whose primitive paintings are now prized by collectors
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.
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Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life.
—David Allen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
Being untaught in our schools, as so much of our history has been.
—Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 23 June 2022
Instead, it was pushed down, unremembered and untaught until efforts decades later started bringing it into the light.
—Deepti Hajela, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2021
But where untaught formlessness is the ideal, the formative character of such an enterprise is suspect, a threat to the authentic, untutored self.
—Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life.
—David Allen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
Being untaught in our schools, as so much of our history has been.
—Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 23 June 2022
Instead, it was pushed down, unremembered and untaught until efforts decades later started bringing it into the light.
—Deepti Hajela, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2021
But where untaught formlessness is the ideal, the formative character of such an enterprise is suspect, a threat to the authentic, untutored self.
—Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
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