illiterate
adjective
unable to read and write.
illiterately
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a word derived from
illiterate.
Example Sentences
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Soon the first of a series of notes, illiterately penned by Furrier Berg at dictation of his captors, reached his frightened wife and lawyer.
From Time Magazine Archive
They tell their own story, simply—sometimes ungrammatically and illiterately, but nevertheless irresistibly.
From Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger
