illiterate

She sent all her atas to school along with her children because "if someone is illiterate, there are many things they won't understand."

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

He speaks Old English and is illiterate, though his culture is rich in poetry and heroic tales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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

In her second term, she introduced a constitutional amendment to reserve 45 seats in the legislature for female MPs, and worked to educate young women - in a country where 70% of them were illiterate.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

“Okay, Mr. Teacher! See you!” the soldier said and Ugwu thought he saw a glimmer of triumph in his eyes, the illiterate fool.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

“In history, our leaders were poets and scholars, but when Russia invaded, warlords and illiterates emerged in power,” said Qudratullah Zaki, 45, an ethnic Uzbek legislator and an ally of Ghani.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2016

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

The number of illiterates by the census of 1870 above the age of ten years, in round numbers, was 5,500,000.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various