illiterate

Example Sentences

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Because so many incoming students were numerically illiterate, the university added a remedial class for middle- and elementary-school math.

From The Wall Street Journal

They want illiterate, groveling serfs, who live in fear and don’t stick around too long.

From Salon

He also appeals to the diaspora and illiterate people in rural areas who have no access to social media or the internet.

From Washington Times

AOL was once powerful too, but its user base has aged and now an aol.com email address is little more than a punchline in a joke about technologically illiterate people of a certain age.

From Seattle Times

Repeatedly getting personal throughout the speech, Killer Mike called back to his own childhood and said his illiterate grandfather still understood that the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times