illiterate

He has commonly been described as illiterate, but O'Keeffe uncovered a draft of the memoir among Napier's papers that was written in Byfield's own hand.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

That guidance suggests that teenage girls in particular are illiterate about their own bodies, and as a result make poor health decisions.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Raised by a single mother in Korogocho, one of Nairobi's poorest informal settlements, Marius describes himself as "something like illiterate", and sees few options in a country where 40 percent live below the poverty line.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

In this adaptation, Anna Bowden had been Cady’s defense attorney, and he’s no longer an illiterate rube but a successful restaurateur who was convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

I must have tinkered too much wondering how my invisible grandmother, illiterate and dependent on letter writers, could give us candy free.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Poetry — which prompts you with rhymes — is far easier to memorize than prose, so even illiterates could hear it and pass it along.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020

Carlson at one point complained about “the illiterates posing as political analysts on your TV,” presumably on rival networks.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2020

The unintended consequences of do-goodism by cultural illiterates.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

Thus, contract laborers were excluded in 1885, immoral persons and anarchists in 1903, and illiterates in 1917.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016

He reports illiterates in England at 33 per cent. of the population.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various