uneducated

CEFRB1

/ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/

adjective

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Examples

His father was a wealthy, uneducated farmer who died three months before Newton was born.
People that think and speak only about themselves are hopelessly uneducated.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters.
[…] A few mojaheddin and militants screaming about our oil money and yelling about foreign interference, and we a bunch of uneducateds, how could we have known that they would do this to us.”
If you want to see evil in his books, you'll have to search into the uneducateds and the poors (something that is usually mistaked as racism from Lovecraft).

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Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters.
2016 January 27, Tal Kopan, “Ben Carson: Uneducated voters a ‘threat’”, in CNN
[…] A few mojaheddin and militants screaming about our oil money and yelling about foreign interference, and we a bunch of uneducateds, how could we have known that they would do this to us.”
2011 February 10, Littleblackfish, “Cab confessionals: Iranians respond to Egypt”, in Index on Censorship
If you want to see evil in his books, you'll have to search into the uneducateds and the poors (something that is usually mistaked as racism from Lovecraft).
2018 March 24, Huillam, Warframe Forums
So what happened? It’s fun to point the finger. Some say it was the poors, or the uneducateds, or even the third-party voters. No matter the scenario, it’s always fun to blame someone else and throw up your hands (while a finger on each is pointed of course).
2018 May 28, Joel Edelman, “Primary election 2018 coverage for the deaf”, in Today's featured shit

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From un- + educated.