How to Use undereducated in a Sentence

undereducated

adjective
  • Pity the employees who may know more than their undereducated bosses.
    — WSJ, 17 Dec. 2017
  • The undereducated young woman with abandonment issues and the worldly prince with stiff-upper-lip issues (and a mistress to boot) were not a good match.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
  • We’re kept at arm’s length, admirers of the character’s physical and musical gifts but left undereducated about her soul.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
  • 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, 10 July 2018
  • If such policies and practices actually worked to educate students who are undereducated, that might not be cause for concern.
    — Longreads, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Balram, a poor, undereducated villager, feels trapped in a metaphorical rooster coop, waiting to be slaughtered.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 21 Jan. 2021
  • One reason that persistent pain can go undiagnosed for so long is that health care workers are undereducated about diagnosing and treating pain.
    — Kate M. Nicholson, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
  • One in five youths don’t get daily physical activity, putting them increasingly at risk of being undereducated and unhealthy.
    — Tylisa Johnson, Philly.com, 27 June 2018
  • As a result, the ranks of India’s undereducated masses will swell, stymying attempts to revive and modernize the world’s sixth-largest economy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Before the pandemic, those living in extreme poverty tended to be rural, undereducated, young and working in agriculture.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Many of Detroit's children have parents who are either undereducated or have difficulty reading.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2018
  • The state developed the program to connect undereducated Ohio residents with the education and training needed to secure jobs with a living wage.
    — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
  • Carried by undereducated graduates, these viruses infect the nation’s civic culture.
    — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2017
  • The politics of the ebonics panic allowed no space for the broader story, one that began with the problem of poor Black students being underserved and undereducated within the school system.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But the average American is woefully undereducated about the history of race in the United States.
    — Time Staff, Time, 29 June 2019
  • The president will continue to be an unqualified, undereducated dolt.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 July 2017
  • To be radically inclusive, festivals such as Sundance would have to prioritize poor and undereducated filmmakers over elite ones with college degrees.
    — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Despite a recent uptick in the Russian birth rate, the country still has an old undereducated population plagued by chronic disease, and its economy isn’t exactly an innovative dynamo.
    — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 31 May 2017
  • When privileged people of any color make films about disempowered and undereducated communities, as Barbara Kopple did, all the same questions apply.
    — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Participants are often black men and women who are undereducated and sometimes functionally illiterate.
    — Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 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, 1 Oct. 2018
  • One of this play’s many delights arrives when down-market, undereducated Becky comes face-to-face with the aristocratic Susan, their similarities soon as peculiar and glaring as their differences.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The resultant billions in debt both floated educational institutions and sunk the prospects of undereducated and miseducated students.
    — WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Xi’s ability to create a Chinese economic juggernaut, which is what many in the West incorrectly believe exists now, is not possible given the poor, undereducated state of so many of his countrymen.
    — Therese Shaheen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • These methods promote true intellectual diversity while still striving to advance the disadvantaged and undereducated.
    — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022
  • For the poor, undereducated, underemployed characters of Douglas Stuart’s novels, late-20th-century Glasgow is a bleak world that is getting bleaker all the time.
    — Claire Jarvis, The Atlantic, 12 July 2022
  • Then there was undersize, undereducated, altogether underwhelming me.
    — Bruce McCall, Town & Country, 22 July 2013
  • Currently, Liberty County has a large population between 25-40 that is underpaid and undereducated.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 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, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Third, our servicemen are underpaid, undereducated and underappreciated.
    — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022

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