uneducated
Example Sentences
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The plight of Yemen's schools, as well as reflecting the country's humanitarian crisis, also signals difficulties for future development, hampered by an uneducated population.
From Barron's
Many of the enlisted men were poor, uneducated and on the margins before the war and came back to the same circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times
He said that he was lucky to be uneducated because he spent his whole life learning.
From Los Angeles Times
He's uneducated about history, so he doesn't realize that it was America that built the system he rails against.
From Salon
Set in Zanzibar in the 1990s, this coming-of-age novel focuses on three very different young people, including Badar, an uneducated servant boy who has never known his parents.
From BBC
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