Unlettered

He said that nobody with Trace's education would EVER used an "unlettered" dialect. ❋ Holly (2006)

Leonardo described himself as "unlettered" because he was unable to read Latin, the language used by other Renaissance intellectuals. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This post with its piece of bark was neither more nor less than a letter, such as unlettered men in all ages have used for holding intercourse with absent friends. ❋ Unknown (1859)

The how and wherefore it is unnecessary to explain, but some of the cleverest and best-bred people of this well-bred and clever capital took us by the hand, all "unlettered" as we were, and from that moment, taking into consideration our tastes and my health, the question has been, not how to get into, but how to keep out of, the great world. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

"unlettered;" that they often conduce to the "tyranny of the unwise majority"; that they undermine parliaments, ties the hands of cabinets, and generally lead to weakened or ungovernable states. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, on the purely personal level, Uhry never follows up a crucial moment when Miss Daisy teaches the unlettered Hoke the rudiments of reading. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sarah Palin is an unlettered, ignorant woman and ought to be ignored. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The prospect of a primitive party of Republicans getting control of government, or a Nobel-prize winning columnist in the world's most authoritative newspaper writing broad generalities about how Republicans are unlettered buffoons who hate learning and science? ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2011)

For the immense crowd of the unlettered, the multitude which had neither psalter nor missal and whose only book was the church, it was necessary to give concrete form to abstract thought. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And yet I found Colonel Ingram situated the same as the unlettered mechanics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anthony remarked, and Mary Bella knew he was not referring to what an unlettered stone had inspired, but to the past that was theirs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

CNN, PLEASE, PLEASE stop featuring this unlettered and uneducated woman. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mulshine asserts that “‘Whomever’ may sound more impressive to the unlettered, but it cannot serve as the subject of a sentence.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oceania, to-day ruled over by a peasant-born, unlettered, colonial gendarme, and ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

They came of generations of poor unlettered people — peasants of the sea who sowed their sons on the waves as has been their custom since time began. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Do these same people bother to go read to unlettered children, build for the disadvantaged, feed the hungry, hold a small child at an orphanage or clean the animal cages at a shelter?. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Strating with ‘Iqra’, we are, generally, the most unlettered people around the globe. ❋ Unknown (2009)