uneducated

Example Sentences

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Through public-records requests, residents obtained internal messages from city officials that many in Festus find disparaging, including one referring to data-center opponents as a “sideshow of uneducated people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

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 • Nov. 13, 2025

It was really sad for me, because this person who obviously doesn’t know any law, on this subject anyway, is completely uneducated on this particular, very important question.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2025

He said that he was lucky to be uneducated because he spent his whole life learning.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

Even the relatively uneducated Leeuwenhoek, the first great microscopist, who had no Latin, qualified as a surveyor.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton