untaught

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The very thing that this museum is about — the contributions of black people to U.S. society — has been untaught for so long that the truth remains elusive.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2016

Weight machines, by design, entirely remove skill from the equation: They are intended to offer the untaught user a way to lift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2016

Norfolk describes the local farmers as untrained, untaught amateur engineers and talented landscape architects, who cut drainage ditches, smooth fields and dam streams.

From Time • Jul. 28, 2015

All your pretty girls are untaught: sister Lizzie, of course; Emma with her reading lists; imbecilic Catherine Morland.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013

She didn’t tell him how others seemed simply to come to her untaught.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry