semiliterate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for semiliterate
Adjective
  • They were kept illiterate, by law.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This was particularly important given that much of their peasant audience was illiterate, Palmer explains.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Even women of color with a college education have a higher chance of dying in childbirth than an uneducated white woman, and that is shocking.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 30 Aug. 2025
  • These consequences will not be limited to the poor, the uneducated or minority groups.
    Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The league might be skeptical that the Clippers were merely ignorant of the Aspiration-Leonard relationship and question why the team didn’t undertake more diligence.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Conversations that would’ve otherwise been fun and intellectually stimulating will start to feel childish and ignorant.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Some research also suggests that children who are unschooled underperform on academic assessments, particularly regarding reading.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2024
Adjective
  • Such a practice would have been especially useful in nonliterate societies where knowledge was transmitted orally.
    Amanda Fortini, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
Adjective
  • No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • Many call center staff were unknowledgeable and some were rude.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 6 Aug. 2021
Adjective
  • With hundreds of years of patient work behind it, with some educational institutions willing to protect their scientists, and with researchers hard at work in less-benighted nations, the human desire to know and to understand will continue to produce results.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Like the original Outlander, Blood of My Blood is believably frank about the possibility of assault in the benighted past.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Semiliterate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semiliterate. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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