Sample Sentences for
illiterate
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    She is culturally illiterate.
    illiterate = uninformed
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    What could a bunch of illiterate barbarians be looking for?  (source)
    illiterate = unable to read or write
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    Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.  (source)
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    He felt ashamed but had no choice if he didn't want to end up illiterate.  (source)
    illiterate = unable to read or write
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    He ran on a platform of improving the school system, fighting illiteracy, and trying to find innovative solutions to the metastasizing drug trade that was poisoning life in major areas of the city.†  (source)
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    There's just no telling what illiterates like that might do.  (source)
    illiterates = people who can't read or write
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    We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Hassan taught him to read and write—his son was not going to grow up illiterate like he had.  (source)
    illiterate = unable to read or write
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    But I will look about my village at the illiteracy and disease and ignorance and I will not wonder long.†  (source)
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    Some illiterates held writing in disdain; others seemed to have a superstitious reverence for the written word, as if it were some sort of magic.†  (source)
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    We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.†  (source)
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    It was the most illiterate nation in Europe, with the majority of its population living in modified serfdom: tilling the fields with wooden plows, beating their wives by candlelight, collapsing on their benches drunk with vodka, and then waking at dawn to humble themselves before their icons.  (source)
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    She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.†  (source)
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