semi-illiterate

American  

[sem-ee-i-lit-er-it, sem-ahy-] / ˌsɛm i ɪˈlɪt ər ɪt, ˌsɛm aɪ- /

adjective

1. semiliterate.

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Other Word Forms

• semi-illiteracy noun
• semi-illiterates noun

Example Sentences

Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa has praised Peru’s president Martín Vizcarra for dismissing the country’s rightwing opposition-dominated parliament which he said was made up of “semi-illiterate swindlers”.

From The Guardian

“As many as half remained illiterate or semi-illiterate in both Vietnamese and English and never became U.S. citizens. The mainstream Vietnamese-American population looked down on them.”

From Salon

Then I look up and I see Jenny Flick, arms folded, glaring at me, and Bill Corso, the school’s semi-illiterate star quarterback, standing behind her.

From Literature

She’s developing a workshop for 2019 looking at how race relations were impacted by an 1890s election law named for Zelda’s father, Judge Anthony Sayre, that made it harder for illiterate and semi-illiterate citizens to vote.

From Washington Times

He describes his album as "a hexadecagonal pseudo-fortress of occasionally caustic and semi-illiterate pop nonsense" and, employing a decidedly regal third-person, "suspects the whole thing is a little schizophrenic and relentless" while tacitly acknowledging the benefits of such qualities.

From The Guardian