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UK
/ʌntˈɔːt/
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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 untaught In A Sentence
- You must be untaught some of what you have learned by yourself. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
- About once a year some pious public library banishes Huck Finn from its children's department, and on the same plea always — that Huck, the neglected and untaught son of a town drunkard, is given to lying, when in difficulty and hard pressed, and is therefore a bad example for young people, and a damager of their morals. Excerpt From ‘The Autobiography of Mark Twain’
- untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient
- Students are left untaught for half the year so they can attend harvests, pilgrimages and religious festivals (refashioned as pubs, fly-drives and raves).
- If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. Laura Bush defends Obama school speech
- Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
- Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
- countryman, rustic, clown, paysan, villager," still signify a rude and untaught person, as opposed to the words "townsman" and "citizen". Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
- It is human nature, for the untaught and unintelligent, to abuse power when they get the chance.