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Illiterate meaning
Unable to read and write. | Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education. | Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
Example sentences (20)
The former refers to an illiterate person who lives in a household with literates and the latter to an illiterate who lives in a household of all illiterates.
Among other restrictions on ‘undesirable’ immigrants, it barred illiterate people from entering the United States.
As was my father who was an illiterate HS drop out.
But, unfortunately, little of this prosperity trickled down to the majority of poor and illiterate members of the population, mostly living in rural Jamaica.
During police interrogation, Maan Singh said that he opened bank accounts of poor, illiterate people, and sold these accounts with ATM cards, passbooks and chequebooks to alleged cybercriminals for Rs 10,000, said the police.
Ed got up on stage two days after we did it and said that I had made the mistake, and it makes me look illiterate.
First and foremost l cannot give support to an illiterate.
It's the case in NA as made worse by real estate agents who some may be just as illiterate as barrier to entry is extremely low.
Sometimes, there is no independent, neutral third-party around to explain contracts to the blind or illiterate.
Their poor education has left many illiterate and unable to compete in a modern world.
This endeavor was hatched by Henry Kissinger’s economically illiterate protégés at the National Security Council and Bush’s Texas oilman, Secretary of State James Baker.
This is a crisis, we can’t emerge as a country with children who are illiterate in 2023.
This lack of requirement to explain a contract also applies if the other party is blind or illiterate.
We have professional aides now like Bradford Machila unlike PF when we had illiterate street kaponyas like Kaizar.
When asked about disabilities, some respondents claimed to be illiterate.
Yet, the HMI said that there is a “risk of recruiting the wrong people,” saying that he has heard of trainee officers “who are, on paper at least, functionally illiterate in English”.
Addressing the country’s literacy challenges, especially in the northern region, Osinbajo noted that over 67% of women in northern Nigeria are illiterate.
Equal parts grotesque and illiterate, Gessen’s piece nonetheless fit within the trendy mainstream copycat culture of intentionally minimizing Jewish pain and tragedy in order to inflate the perception of Jewish criminality.
He had earlier informed the court that he was illiterate in response to evidence that he had sacked his legal team and elected to represent himself.
I know someone who volunteers with the Girl Guides, and apparently these kids are functionally illiterate.