untutored
Example Sentences
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"I was an untutored villager, with no idea of acting."
From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025
“His pictures,” Barnes wrote, “have the charm of a child’s fairy-tale, but there is nothing childish or untutored in the skill with which they are executed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025
Although AI chatbots may seem to the untutored user to be generating their own thoughts in responding to questions, they don’t create content, as such.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025
An untutored officer, Forrest apparently never bothered to learn the cavalry manual of arms, leaving such “minor details” to his subordinates.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2022
Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent—he wouldn’t have lasted 113 days if he were.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
