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UK
/ʌnlˈɛtəd/
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ADJECTIVE
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having little acquaintance with writing
special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society -
uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
an ignorant man
an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
nescient of contemporary literature
How To Use unlettered In A Sentence
- Those confronting the Raj here were poor, unlettered peasants.
- Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus? Cosmic Consciousness
- exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
- And his unlettered parents and uncle also ‘supported my younger sister Madhavi’.
- ‘No ego here and hence no opinion,’ claimed Muthal, the unlettered president.
- It seems common to consider the MFDP as a group of uneducated farmers or unlettered peasants, yet it was this party and these people who put their lives on the line in one of the most courageous acts of African political expression.
- She wearied of Rose's talkativeness, regarded the child's brightness as a kind of clowning, and in the way of a kind, unlettered, self-possessed mother, forgave her daughter for being intelligent. Beard
- My desk still remained; my unlettered neighbour would have little use for a writing desk. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- When she straightened up again, I saw she was holding a book: a black-bound tome with a worn, unlettered cover. NIGHT SISTERS
- But on the whole, this is a great book to give to your colleagues in the humanities who think that anyone who does mathematics must be an unlettered philistine.
