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Definition
unable to read or write (not literate)
or:
uninformed in a particular field or general subject area
or:
uninformed in a particular field or general subject area
- Clay is always telling me what an illiterate boob I am.Chapter 22 (60% in)
- He informed himself that he was a moron to make this long trip into Zenith twice in one day; he remembered that he was engaged to a girl called Madeline Fox; he worried the matter of unfaithfulness; he asserted that Leora Tozer was merely an imitation nurse who was as illiterate as a kitchen wench and as impertinent as a newsboy; he decided, several times he decided, to telephone her and free himself from the engagement.Chapter 6 (30% in)
- Iowa has the richest land, the lowest illiteracy rate, the largest percentages of native-born whites and motor-car owners, and the most moral and forward-looking cities of all the States, and Nautilus is the most Iowan city in Iowa.Chapter 19 (4% in)
- Of course Tubbs is an illiterate jackass but still, at that, he hasn't got persecution-mania, like Gottlieb.Chapter 26 (74% in)
There are no more uses of "illiterate" in Arrowsmith.
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