undereducate
Americanverb (used with object)
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By all accounts, these self-absorbed and overcredentialed but undereducated youths are struggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
To simply think the value will magically come back to you is to be woefully undereducated in the realities of our world.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2024
“We were completely undereducated in terms of conversations about prejudice and race.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2020
He is especially critical of the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom he found undereducated and parochial.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
That’s eggplant to us nonspecial, undereducated, small-town people.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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