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    illiterate


    1. Moreover, she is always trying to sabotage me in various stupid ways: She steals my back up floppy discs and accuses me of losing them, yet I see them as soon as she opens her drawer; she refuses to show me some useful things on the computer; she gives me to type the wrong texts and then she says I am the one who doesn't work right; she drops hints I am illiterate and I don't know the computer program, and so on


    2. That explains it: I have heard about certain persons lately who, although they are illiterate, have become successful travelling salesmen and earn up to 700,000 drachmas per month! Taking into account that a salesman's commission is no higher than 10%, how do they manage to make sales of 7,000,000 drachmas every month? What do they really sell? Encyclopedias? Come on now! Nowadays you can find cheap and voluminous encyclopedias in bookstores or, even, on offer in newspapers! Why would anyone pay dearly a commercial traveller? Unless they sell other things, other ''services'', instead of books


    3. The parents must be illiterate and not have any books or magazines


    4. ‘That proves his family’s illiterate all right,’ she thought


    5. Charlemagne was illiterate, but this is another


    6. Theoretically, the Greeks are not illiterate, but


    7. today is illiterate and cannot read this sentence


    8. He also began tutoring the children in our, admittedly, mostly illiterate village


    9. They will promise the illegal to be legal, the poor to be rich, the illiterate to be intelligent, etc


    10. The idea that class struggle and envy determined the totality of history was an idea suited best for molding the minds of an illiterate people

    11. She informed him he was nuts and he told her she was illiterate


    12. A look in your eyes will make the illiterate read


    13. SHE WILL KEEP HER CHILD ILLITERATE, SHES’ THE ONE


    14. " He opened the Gospels (upside-down, the illiterate) and started to flip through its famous, irreplaceable pages


    15. When Q6 was asked about the literacy, 50% of women were found illiterate,


    16. whereas 5% of men were illiterate


    17. The need of informal education for illiterate people


    18. States are some of the most biblically illiterate in the


    19. they are so biblically illiterate they couldn't even if


    20. "Of course! We’re not all illiterate here, you know," Zoe said defensively

    21. But Esther was just illiterate, and the girls, although very poor, managed


    22. People who are illiterate often pretend they can read


    23. They were mostly poor and illiterate fishermen


    24. “Today India is more illiterate than it was fifty or a hundred years ago, and so is Burma, because the British administrators, when they came to India, instead of taking hold of things as they were, began to root them out


    25. What would she want with an illiterate skinhead?”


    26. They were distinct from the choir monks, and a chief distinction was that they were illiterate


    27. Carol was almost computer illiterate and this was his baby


    28. Again, Siri couldn’t help himself, standing there with the appearance of an illiterate native


    29. The people, for the most part, were illiterate


    30. population was illiterate, compared to 1900 when more

    31. for the procedure were illiterate; they simply had no idea what


    32. that he was illiterate! But nevertheless, ALLAH taught Muhammad


    33. Then he said, 'Tell me about the illiterate Prophet


    34. He was a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate, and endowed with quiet wiles and a messianic vocation that aroused a demented fanaticism in his men


    35. The map checks took about ten minutes, most of the recruits being quite new at the art of map reading and field navigation, with many being mostly illiterate on top


    36. " The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn


    37. They should be pleased to hear that you are no longer a bilingual illiterate


    38. Hebrew population were illiterate at that time and were


    39. but illiterate — returned to school to learn how to read


    40. When they returned to their room Shirl spread her tools on the table and began to dismantle the expensive laptop, Murray made a pot of coffee and sat and watched her doing her thing, the whole procedure was a mystery to Murray, he was totally computer illiterate and as far as altering one he would be about as much use as an ash tray on a motorbike, he was fascinated watching Shirl soldering this, disconnecting that, taking one component out and replacing it with another, very much in control of her environment

    41. benditos riales; in the European countries where themetric system has been adopted, the illiterate classes still clingby preference to the old measures for currency, weight, andvolume


    42. Our peasants are in the majority, illiterate


    43. those among the most illiterate dregs of earth in the realm of the


    44. He was, in fact, still fairly technologically illiterate by most standards, unable to set the correct time on his microwave or get his computer functioning properly


    45. Did you know that over seventeen percent of the populations of Africa and of the Indian Sub-Continent is illiterate or nearly so? The same regions that show the highest consistent rate of population growth on Earth while being the poorest


    46. being illiterate and without the skills necessary to hold down a job


    47. The vast majority of the population of Earth is illiterate and lives in utter poverty and in precarious conditions under the rule of a multitude of various monarchs, aristocrats and tribal leaders who too often couldn’t care less about the common good


    48. ‘’Magic and sorcery are two words the Church uses too often to accuse those who don’t follow strictly its doctrine and to keep the ignorant and the illiterate in line


    49. While all illiterate men at first, they were far from stupid and had proved surprisingly good with their hands and with basic, manual tools, even though they had at first been completely unfamiliar with the notion of exact measurements


    50. The average Taliban fighter is actually no more than an illiterate thug with a rifle












































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    Synonyms for "illiterate"

    illiterate illiterate person nonreader ignorant idiot moron dummy unlettered untaught untutored uneducated uninstructed

    "illiterate" definitions

    a person unable to read


    not able to read or write


    uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field


    lacking culture, especially in language and literature