semi-illiterate
Americanadjective
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Playwright Enid Bagnold loves the English language with rare fidelity, and in the present semi-illiterate state of the U.S. stage, pure English makes an irresistible lover for an audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
First of all, it is the composition of a vulgar and illiterate, or, at any rate, semi-illiterate person.
From In the Mayor's Parlour by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
If one—even one—of the teachers of English or Greek or chemistry or economics had taught Neale as this semi-illiterate, wealthy young barbarian taught him...!
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
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