illiterate

Bonilla’s interest in being on the other side of the camera solidified after playing an illiterate South Central high school student in the Byron Allen sitcom “Mr. Box Office.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

It painted a dire picture of a nation where one-in-two children under five years has stunted growth, and nearly three-quarters of 10 year-olds leave school illiterate.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Although more and more people were learning how to read, the artisans still had signs above their shops, not wishing to lose a possible patron merely because he happened to be illiterate.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

But these illiberal cultural illiterates instead wanted curtains for the offending Elizabethan play.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2017

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

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016

Female illiteracy levels in India are high; indeed it is estimated that there are more female illiterates in India than in the rest of the world combined.

From Forbes ● Feb. 23, 2015

It covers grammar, because all that texting is causing us to become a country of unemployable illiterates.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2014

Of the 5,500,000 illiterates as reported by the census of 1910, nearly 3,225,000 were whites, and more than 1,500,000 were native-born whites.

From Conservation Through Engineering Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior by Franklin K. Lane