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 said the newly recruited auxiliary police were either undereducated, drunk on power or worried about being found wanting in their duties and being sent to the camps themselves.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
It would be a Swanburne squirrel through and through, and, therefore, its behavior could not be considered representative of the high-strung and woefully undereducated furball that is more typical of the species.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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