undereducated
adjective
un·der·ed·u·cat·ed
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Definition of undereducated
: poorly educated
Examples of undereducated in a Sentence
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Participants are often black men and women who are undereducated and sometimes functionally illiterate. — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, "Flip the Script program for ex-offenders fights proposed Whitmer budget cut," 9 July 2019 But the average American is woefully undereducated about the history of race in the United States. — Time Staff, Time, "Here's What the Candidates Said During Thursday's Dramatic Democratic Presidential Debate," 29 June 2019 But Alsallal says part of the problem is that government officials are often undereducated, underpaid, and lack the technical skills for understanding and dealing with a rapidly changing startup scene. — Miriam Berger, Vox, "Why innovative tech startups are thriving across the Middle East," 1 Oct. 2018 Automation didn’t cause the middle class to flee California, turn public schools into social-justice encampments instead of institutions of learning or necessitate the importation of an undereducated, economically disadvantaged servant class. — WSJ, "Universal Income, Incentives and Well-Being," 28 Oct. 2018 But the case of Cixi — who was isolated, undereducated and never made a break for personal freedom — is a hard argument to make. — New York Times, "Was This Powerful Chinese Empress a Feminist Trailblazer?," 10 July 2018 Many of Detroit's children have parents who are either undereducated or have difficulty reading. — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, "If Detroit's leaders don't want to talk race, then talk schools," 29 May 2018 One in five youths don’t get daily physical activity, putting them increasingly at risk of being undereducated and unhealthy. — Tylisa Johnson, Philly.com, "Too few Philly kids get to play sports. A new initiative hopes to change that," 27 June 2018 Their laudable appeal to have-nots at the bottom of the pile, both free and unfree, meant that bishops had a citizen-army of pumped-up, undereducated young men ready to rid the world of sin. — Bettany Hughes, New York Times, "How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World," 8 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'undereducated.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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