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uneducated | American Dictionary

uneducated
adjective
us/ʌnˈedʒ·əˌkeɪ·t̬ɪd/
having received little education

Examples of uneducated

uneducated
They themselves stressed of course the professional capacities which elevated them above 'uneducated working miners'.
As pointed out previously, educated speakers are more change-resisting than uneducated speakers, because of their familiarity with formal and archaic varieties of language.
Therefore, individuals choose to become educated workers if their second-period wealth as educated workers is higher than their second-period wealth as uneducated workers.
The people, he urged, are uneducated, even 'inoculated by time and habit'.
The educated physicians' response to these changes, so it would seem, was to issue warnings against the uneducated application of drugs and medicine.
Consequently, the division between the ' educated ' and the ' uneducated ' was not a neat one.
It won't do us any good if only men are educated and women are uneducated.
Intellectually inaccessible to the uneducated, it retained an elitist character that favored restrictive conditions, including surveillance of visitors who entered the galleries of natural history.
Her first husband was uneducated, unlovable and impatient.
Only 11 % of the highly educated women disapprove of family planning, while more than half of the uneducated women disapprove.
In effect, an urbane, classically educated political dissident had to imagine and try to articulate convincingly the mental world of an uneducated, provincial soldier.
Education may inculcate a greater sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of children, replacing the more fatalistic approach of the uneducated father.
While some of these extreme figures were uneducated, a great many were not.
Also in the uneducated, unoriginal, men women who have passed through it.
The use of an immature, uneducated workforce labouring for little monetary reward and accorded low status is worrying.
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