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• s  literate but poorly informed
• s  barely able to read and write
  an semiliterate scrawl
• s  able to read but not to write

• That is the heart of the problem, for it leaves behind the lower-income, semiliterate Negroes, notably the families that are below the Government's $3,000-a-year poverty line.
• The dismaying pollution of the cityscape, like that of the language, stems from illiterate and, worse, semiliterate pretentiousness.
• PTI has obtained part of a neatly typed manuscript that is a sometimes semiliterate mixture of blissful and tawdry.

News & Articles

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• Billy Collins keeps it perfectly simple in his new poetry collection, 'Aimless Love'
  Random House, 288 pp., $26 Billy Collins has spent decades popularizing poetry, and I, for one, am furious. Look up “accessible” in the dictionary, and his impish face grins back. Yet will the semiliterate masses trouble themselves to dip into...
  Dec. 11, 2013 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer