undereducated

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Recent Examples of undereducated The incalculable damage wrought is everywhere: undereducated children, increases in suicides and drug overdoses, a general coarsening of society and intensified political division. Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2024 Generals blame an increasingly overweight, overmedicated and undereducated youth pool. Owen West and Kevin Wallsten, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023 Lumi felt comfortable enough to reveal that a few record labels had already approached him with offers of $10,000 for an album—an attempt, in Magana’s eyes, to exploit an undereducated teen’s naivete about how the industry really works. WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023 Many people, including those who have vitiligo, are misinformed or undereducated about the condition. Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for undereducated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undereducated
Adjective
  • Obama just went about his job and didn’t send untrained, uneducated wannabe stormtroopers into cities to intimidate people with tremendous shows of force.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Additionally, data released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in September revealed that nearly half of the country’s youth population, aged 18 to 30, is unemployed, uneducated, or lacking training.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Kudos to former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama for showing class and not responding to this insecure, ignorant symbol of racist hatred.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Walz said children fear aggressive agents; critics called the comparison ignorant and offensive.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • An illiterate laborer and cook, Lee joined the Shaking Quaker sect in 1758.
    Claire Messud, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This cooking competition show takes a group of kitchen illiterate recruits and puts them through a culinary bootcamp designed to instill them with basic food prep skills.
    Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • De-Stalinization was quick and brutal, with history having the last say — a lesson guaranteed to go unlearned.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Peeta explained unlearned stimuli cause AVs to simply stop.
    Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Even with Dibble effortlessly laying waste to every point and argument made by his benighted co-guest, Joe Rogan remained unconvinced.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 1 Dec. 2025
  • With the midterm election still nearly a year off — and the 2028 presidential contest eons away — many of those angry or despondent over the benighted state of our union desperately wanted to do something to push back.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
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
  • By comparison, Danceny is practically a boy, unschooled in the art of manipulation, and Reeves provides the character with the appropriate youthful naïveté.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Undereducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undereducated. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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