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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
Adjective
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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
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These consequences will not be limited to the poor, the uneducated or minority groups.—
Arthur L. Kellermann,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
14 Apr. 2025
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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
Adjective
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They were kept illiterate, by law.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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This was particularly important given that much of their peasant audience was illiterate, Palmer explains.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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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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
Adjective
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In certain circles, identifying with the city is shorthand for being uncultured and self-obsessed, even soulless.—
Ella Berman
August 7,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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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
Cite this Entry
“Unknowledgeable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unknowledgeable. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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