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UK
/ʌnskˈuːld/
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ADJECTIVE
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lacking in schooling
an untutored genius
uneducated children
untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient
How To Use unschooled In A Sentence
- It's as if we are back in that newspaper office of 10 years ago, when Riddoch, unschooled in the resistant bureaucracy of getting out a daily paper, tried to change hidebound attitudes too quickly for comfort.
- Had he done so, Preen Chand would have kicked him off Hannibal even if it meant putting an unschooled oxherd aboard the beast. A different flesh
- The truths he affirms are encoded in his own poetry, rather than mysteriously embodied in Scripture, and he addresses a cultured but non-Latinate audience unschooled in philosophy.
- Furthermore, unschooled pragmatism tends to set aside questions of due process, or of rights.
- He was as unschooled in covert action as his Embassy counterparts, but was more innovative and seemingly inexhaustible.
- He admired the truthfulness of landscapes painted by an unschooled artist, who became his first teacher.
- She allowed herself this small display of unschooled emotion.
- At that time, there was talk of a deaf-mute who sometimes frequented the same spot, unschooled in any language of symbols, motioning uselessly to passersby. Matisse, in the Jardin des Tuileries, 1904
- Original spirituality is unschooled and so simple that you may not believe it at first. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
- And as a bondmaid steals away from a wealthy house, whom fate has lately severed from her native land, nor yet has she made trial of grievous toil, but still unschooled to misery and shrinking in terror from slavish tasks, goes about beneath the cruel hands of a mistress; even so the lovely maiden rushed forth from her home. The Argonautica