unacquainted

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For those unacquainted with a typewriter, it was once a popular machine for writing on paper.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023

For those unacquainted with the world of eggplants, they can be . . . finicky.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2022

As Bauerlein says, unacquainted with literature, they are content with cliches.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

He was regularly called a Renaissance man, and although he disliked the term, which he said was invariably used “by people unacquainted with the Renaissance,” it fit him well.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019

Nurse Cramer was a good- hearted, sentimental creature who rejoiced unselfishly at news of -weddings, engagements, births and anniversaries even though she was unacquainted with any of the people involved.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller