half-educated
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Reichardt wants existential mystery: we’re meant simply to accept the trio as outlaws, resentful, half-educated, nihilistic, and in way over their heads.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2014
He was sent to Venice as a half-educated boy to learn painting.
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2012
How could Shakespeare, the half-educated son of an unlettered provincial glove maker, have written all those masterpieces?
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2011
The churchmen are more aware than the government or the corporations that the half-educated African, stirred by the white man's literature and moved by his religion, cannot always be satisfied by bread and machines alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had been found instead by half-educated seamen prepared to stand on the deck of a ship in all weathers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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