How to Use uneducated in a Sentence

uneducated

adjective
  • On top of that, my birth name can sound scary to the uninformed and uneducated.
    — Annie Grayer, CNN, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The men, who worked at the lowest level of the drug trade, were poor and uneducated.
    — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2020
  • With three men for every two women, women were kept uneducated and at home.
    — Robert Epstein, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2012
  • As for the spoken word, there are so many instances where people sound uneducated.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • And there's too many young people, uneducated young people, with guns.
    — CBS News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Other parts of the email claimed that DeVoe was uneducated and has a very bad lisp.
    — Tandra Smith | [email protected], al, 30 Dec. 2020
  • For the poor and uneducated, the choice is usually between terrible care or no care at all.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • People uneducated in antiques often share the same misguided ideas about how much old things are worth.
    — Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Gascon can be heard on video obtained by the station saying that those yelling at him were too uneducated to not interrupt him.
    — Fox News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The report says there's been progress, but minorities, along with people who are poor and uneducated, still face higher death rates.
    — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • As Plato once described, Socrates taught an uneducated boy how to double the area of a square.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Some of them are just poor, uneducated people who believe in the American dream.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Feb. 2018
  • That is, unless those Americans are poor, uneducated or live in a rural area.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 14 June 2017
  • Words with letters dropped off the end or entire phrases strung together to form new words were seen as improper speech of the uneducated and poor.
    — Moriah Humiston, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The greater danger to the public’s trust in science comes not from the uneducated but from politicians and journalists who claim to speak in the name of science.
    — Gary Saul Morson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Ukrainian was long scorned as the language of uneducated villagers while Russian was seen as the language of the urban elite.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • This leads to much demagoguery on the part of uneducated or unscrupulous politicians and much economic harm.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The conventional wisdom is that an uneducated, single mom is destined for a life of mediocrity.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 June 2024
  • The old senile Brits and the uneducated young were those who voted to leave, and those who were intelligent voted to remain.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • Just want to leave this here for the ignorant and arrogant people who have chosen to remain uneducated about what this means for we women who bare this burden.
    — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022
  • The average consumer is very uneducated about how many hands have touched their product before it is delivered to them and how little each of them may have been paid in the process.
    — Lauren Parker, Sourcing Journal, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Hammons learned that Pinault was the uneducated son of a peasant from a small Breton village.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • Impeach this uneducated traitor to our values!
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Having my body judged over the span of the 4 teen-to-woman years has really shown me the human tendency to label and make uneducated judgment.
    — Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Rosenberg acknowledges the dangers that can spring from an uneducated approach.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
  • These consequences will not be limited to the poor, the uneducated or minority groups.
    — Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Obama just went about his job and didn’t send untrained, uneducated wannabe stormtroopers into cities to intimidate people with tremendous shows of force.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • These farms had their own staff and did not rely on gig labor, and some of these had procured the delivery permits that were an uphill climb for uneducated local greengrocers.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 22 Nov. 2020
  • The event was pure chaos; the firing was seemingly done impulsively by a handful of the frightened, uneducated ex-cons who filled the British ranks.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The perception of refugees as poor, uneducated, and likely to commit crimes is upsetting to Najafi.
    — Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2020

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