half-educated

British  

adjective

1. not having benefited from a comprehensive education

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Example Sentences

But perhaps the big issue the constitution was trying to address was the culture of the 1980s and early 1990s, when the Kenyan president tended to be surrounded by half-educated sycophants.

From BBC

Unfortunately, this is not how many in the Western world have come to identify the concept, thanks to statements issued by extremists who are half-educated, weak-minded pseudo scholars.

From The Wall Street Journal

“A doctor will say, ‘A half-educated patient is the worst kind of patient,’” Musiker says, adding that the “pediatric mom” is another problematic paradigm.

From US News

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

Among the corporate rotters are Miss Maisie, a dull, monied, right-wing caricature, and Jay Crispin, le Carré’s dark Gatsby—a “rootless, amoral, plausible, half-educated, nicely spoken frozen adolescent in a bespoke suit, with an unappeasable craving for money, power and respect, regardless of where he got them from.”

From Slate