How To Use Unlettered In A Sentence

  • Indeed, he maintained, ‘an unlettered man with God's grace can do more for the building up of the church than many graduates’.
  • She is enchanting but unlettered, wild and rough.
  • And those faceless multitudes, often unlettered, usually uneducated, have been able to guess it right.
  • He was just as interested in its corrosive effect on those who claimed to bring civilization to the unlettered heathen.
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  • You are quite wrong to suggest that only the doltish unlettered can possibly believe in them.
  • I would also have had him tell us the nature of that white belt which crosses the sky, which you call the ovarious belt, "Khatt-i-abyâz", and we the milky-way, and which we consider to be a collection of self-lighted stars, while many orthodox but unlettered Musalmâns think it the marks made in the sky by "Borak", the rough-shod donkey, on which your prophet rode from Jerusalem to heaven. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
  • He will be perhaps a radiating center of altruism, devoted to his friends, a level-headed protector of the working classes, a patron of the arts in his own clearminded, unlettered way. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)
  • A red-haired Cuban refugee used to take offense at nearly everything I uttered, finding me unrefined, unlettered, vulgar, and a bore.
  • For this reason, the only ones in the enemy's ranks who awakened his commiseration were the lowly and unlettered dead interred beneath the sod. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.
  • It is, in fact, impossible for us moderns, educated in a long literary tradition, to live our lives as naturally and naïvely as the unlettered of to-day, or the people of the preliterary geological epoch. Without Prejudice
  • They of course demeaned themselves by demonstrating on the lawn outside the council room like a mob of unlettered students.
  • He described himself as ‘unskilled in every way, an unlettered exile’.
  • Here let me enter my protest against the literary preciosity which derives the word from (_un_) _chanté_ and spells it 'chanty' -- in other words, against the gratuitous assumption that unlettered British sailors derived one of the commonest words in their vocabulary from a foreign source. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
  • Certain villages have decided to squabble, when even the unlettered tribes band together to defend us. HAMMERFALL
  • The immediate postwar era witnessed the proliferation of black community-based organizations, often led by unlettered men and women.
  • He's an unlettered, un-bookish ignoramus, remember?
  • At the tea break I asked the prosecutor whether he could not but admire the fluency with which an apparently unlettered man was conducting his own defence.
  • Your mention of scribes writing down whatever unlettered men have dictated does not prove anything; he did not dictate whilst others sat writing!
  • Log of _The Humane Hopwood_, which heretofore had been a kind of cabalistic Register, full of blots, crosses, half-moons, and zigzags, like the chalk score of an unlettered Ale-wife. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
  • Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus? Cosmic Consciousness
  • exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
  • And his unlettered parents and uncle also ‘supported my younger sister Madhavi’.
  • ‘No ego here and hence no opinion,’ claimed Muthal, the unlettered president.
  • It seems common to consider the MFDP as a group of uneducated farmers or unlettered peasants, yet it was this party and these people who put their lives on the line in one of the most courageous acts of African political expression.
  • She wearied of Rose's talkativeness, regarded the child's brightness as a kind of clowning, and in the way of a kind, unlettered, self-possessed mother, forgave her daughter for being intelligent. Beard
  • My desk still remained; my unlettered neighbour would have little use for a writing desk. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • When she straightened up again, I saw she was holding a book: a black-bound tome with a worn, unlettered cover. NIGHT SISTERS
  • But on the whole, this is a great book to give to your colleagues in the humanities who think that anyone who does mathematics must be an unlettered philistine.
  • Those confronting the Raj here were poor, unlettered peasants.
  • These units thus provided a continuous process of turning unlettered barbarians into literate Roman citizens.
  • A number of the interpretations are fairly literal, which suggests the perspective of an unlettered audience.
  • The participants in these protests were unlettered peasants and tribals, and we know far more of their deeds than their words.
  • His cousins were less fortunate: they remained without a proper education; and would have to face the poverty and boredom of a narrow world of unlettered squireens.
  • A red-haired Cuban refugee used to take offense at nearly everything I uttered, finding me unrefined, unlettered, vulgar, and a bore.
  • They of course demeaned themselves by demonstrating on the lawn outside the council room like a mob of unlettered students - but that is the way of the unreal world of academia.
  • They come from all walks of life, all nations, rich and poor, educated and unlettered, religious and secular, respectable and underworld.
  • He was handsome, unlettered, and an excellent horseman.

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