undereducated
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The ”poor ignorant folk” in Holmes’ mind were the undereducated country people of 19th-century England.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2025
“We were completely undereducated in terms of conversations about prejudice and race.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2020
It’s worth noting too that the brunt of these policies falls upon a population that’s disproportionately poor and undereducated and that the measures favored by abstinence-only tobacco control activists are harsh and stigmatizing.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2018
“People had been made to feel ashamed of their history—to feel dirty, to feel undereducated, limp, lacking teeth or whatever,” Pietrzak said.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2018
That’s eggplant to us nonspecial, undereducated, small-town people.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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