illiterate

Bonilla’s interest in being on the other side of the camera solidified after playing an illiterate South Central high school student in the Byron Allen sitcom “Mr. Box Office.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

He has commonly been described as illiterate, but O'Keeffe uncovered a draft of the memoir among Napier's papers that was written in Byfield's own hand.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Most divers were illiterate, and passed down their skills orally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

That guidance suggests that teenage girls in particular are illiterate about their own bodies, and as a result make poor health decisions.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

I must have tinkered too much wondering how my invisible grandmother, illiterate and dependent on letter writers, could give us candy free.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Poetry — which prompts you with rhymes — is far easier to memorize than prose, so even illiterates could hear it and pass it along.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020

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

The unintended consequences of do-goodism by cultural illiterates.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

Thus, contract laborers were excluded in 1885, immoral persons and anarchists in 1903, and illiterates in 1917.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016

In New Mexico, Arizona, and California the ratio is about 250 illiterates in the country to every 100 in the city.

From A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek