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untutored

[ uhn-too-terd, -tyoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

untutored

/ ʌnˈtjuːtəd /

First recorded in 1585–95; un- ¹ + tutor + -ed ²

Her eyes now and again filled with tears, and she tried, in her poor untutored way, to set him right.

As I read the rebuke I felt positively ashamed of my country and its untutored ways.

For what knew the untutored peasant girl of history, of the slow, painful steps by which Christianity was won for the world?

You might hear in the bushes the young blackbirds trilling their first untutored notes.

But, as the female crowd approached them, the gaudy colors of a shawl attracted the eyes of a wild and untutored Huron.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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