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
And so, on Jan. 30, 1933, this half-educated ex- Austrian with a genius for manipulation and deceit became, quite legally, the leader of Germany.
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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