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• s  lacking in schooling
  an untutored genius

• But exactly how untutored and undiscovered were Potts, who went on to win 2007's competition and will release the CD Passione on May 5, and Boyle, who since her performance surfaced .
• Her dark, handsomely pliant voice has none of the whisky rawness long idolized in such untutored folk singers as Lead Belly or Bessie Smith.
• In music, as in painting, the untutored man is at a loss.

• unschooled
• untaught

News & Articles

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• Unbuttoning Toils And Traditions Woven Into A $50,000 Coat
  When Meg Lukens Noonan first stumbled across the expensive coat, her untutored eye saw nothing particularly special. In her new book, The Coat Route , Noonan explores how and why craftsmen spend months creating such luxuries. She also makes an appeal for why the art of tailoring should be preserved.
  July 21, 2013 - NPR

Quotes

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• Dev Benegal in ABS CBN News
  It's an incredible story of this journey that this man made who was very unliterate and untutored but had this passion for mathematics,Benegal said.
• President Bush in Village Voice
  Recent criticism, Bush said, reminded him of the 1970s, when Congress "unleashed a bunch of untutored little jerks out there" to investigate the CIA's involvement in domestic spying, assassinations, and other illegal activities, and subsequently...
• Pat Buchanan in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Buchanan says "Biden has a problem: how to show Sarah Palin is an untutored lightweight without being condescending. As for Palin, she has a fine wit, which won for Reagan, and will be prepped to use it."