uninstructed
Americanadjective
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not instructed; uninformed; uneducated.
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(of a person acting in a representative capacity) not furnished with orders on how to proceed or vote; uncommitted.
uninstructed convention delegates.
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Likewise, it’s also introducing a “Just workout” feature — meaning that any uninstructed activity can be recorded within the Peloton app.
From The Verge ● May 13, 2022
It was one of the few areas of Soviet life where the individual had agency, uninstructed by the state.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
Such robust and uninstructed behavior represents the most convincing evidence yet of analogical reasoning in a non-primate animal, as only apes had spontaneously shown analogical reasoning after learning to match identical items.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 10, 2015
This far into the human story, only the historically uninstructed are startled by what they think are new permutations of evil.
From Washington Post
One fond of wine must be an honest man; For Bacchus, for his double mother famed, Loves not bad men, nor uninstructed clowns, says Alexis.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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