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• s  having little acquaintance with writing
  special tutorials to assist the unlettered sector of society
• s  uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
  exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions

• Says a moderate Protestant: "Before, it was only the simple, unlettered people as a rule who backed the extremists.
• In 15 years, Rolla jumped from an unlettered horse trader to operator of six booming gambling palaces.
• Dubbing spares unlettered foreigners the strain of subtitles.

• analphabetic
• ignorant
• nescient
• unlearned

News & Articles

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• Martin Luther King Jr.'s complexity deserves appreciation: Jarvis DeBerry
  Martin Luther King Jr. used big words. I've always been impressed by his ability to marry his Ph.D. vocabulary with his black Baptist cadence and to speak in a way that inspired and galvanized the educated and the unlettered folks.If...
  Jan. 18, 2014 - New Orleans Times-Picayune

Quotes

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• Uday Singh in Ottawa Citizen (registration)
  He suddenly popped up here ...... he is now dead and he died for the nation. ...... But I was struck with his being unlettered, uneducated, that was striking,Mr. Singh said.
• Thomas Jefferson in Wall Street Journal
  Thomas Jefferson, for instance, wrote that the authors of the canonical Gospels were "ignorant, unlettered men" who laid "a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms, and fabrications."
• Stephen Greenblatt in Boston Globe (registration)
  In the preface to his new book, "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare," Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt says of the playwright, "His works appeal to the learned and the unlettered, to urban sophisticates and provincial...