How To Use Untaught In A Sentence

  • Lautner says that Rembrandt was "untaught," and Donnelly said the same of Shakespeare, and each critic gives this as a reason why the man could not have done a sublime performance. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
  • Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. 
  • Many believe this technological tool is too important and too useful to be untaught to students.
  • A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
  • I would have to have untaught myself to have learned what I have learned.
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  • Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. 
  • We presumed only that they would want students to understand their fields in depth and develop an ability to use ideas in new, untaught contexts.
  • They can include visualisation, lateral thinking and troubleshooting, entrepreneurship, unusual creativity, an untaught understanding of how parts fit together or how systems operate.
  • He untaught her all that her mother tried to teach.
  • The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him, and was acquainted with their practical uses. Chapter 2
  • As long as we accept that racism isn't inherent, but that it is something that is taught, then we must acknowledge that it can be 'untaught'. Umrabulo
  • But Eleanor would fain believe that the lie which Solomon discovered to be "continually on the lips of the untaught" is not on the lips of those who "'know better" at all. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
  • If Christ had been incarnated as a woman, these lessons would have been untaught.
  • Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. 
  • The affection of the unexperienced and untaught bird to its egg, which induces it to sit days and weeks upon it to warm the enclosed embryon, is a matter of great difficulty to explain; See Additional Canto II
  • There would be no sense of peoplehood, none of the untaught affections of those who are part of an organic social unit that shares the same destiny. Sterile Subject
  • He was, though untaught, exceedingly musical, and played by ear on the clavecin anything he had heard. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
  • Although Sara and Tony both developed diagrams for the untaught problems, their representations were not consistently correct.
  • I copy part of a letter from the Duke of Grafton, which I received by this post: — 'I have to thank you for the acquaintance of a real untaught genius, starting from our neighbourhood; which, together with the account you give of his moral character, makes me very desirous of being of service to him. Letter 21
  • In the printed dedication, he again described himself as ‘an untaught man of little learning.’
  • Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. 
  • Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
  • About once a year some pious public library banishes Huck Finn from its children's department, and on the same plea always — that Huck, the neglected and untaught son of a town drunkard, is given to lying, when in difficulty and hard pressed, and is therefore a bad example for young people, and a damager of their morals. Excerpt From ‘The Autobiography of Mark Twain’
  • untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient
  • Students are left untaught for half the year so they can attend harvests, pilgrimages and religious festivals (refashioned as pubs, fly-drives and raves).
  • If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. Laura Bush defends Obama school speech
  • Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. 
  • Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. 
  • countryman, rustic, clown, paysan, villager," still signify a rude and untaught person, as opposed to the words "townsman" and "citizen". Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
  • It is human nature, for the untaught and unintelligent, to abuse power when they get the chance.
  • You must be untaught some of what you have learned by yourself. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • An untaught genius (the obscure expressionist sources that critics find for his films are just nonsense), he was betrayed by the art form that he helped to revolutionise.
  • Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. 
  • In a regular column for the BMJ he articulated many of the untaught and unappreciated immeasurables of general practice.
  • But in the army, where next week you may find yourself in a vicious firefight with a load of Taleban wackos bent on both martyrdom and the tender attentions of the usual 72 virgins (or is it 73 this week?), curtailing training by a week may mean that something which might save the life of a young Private soldier in the field goes untaught. A Shilling for Des's Meter?
  • This call will be joined by the parents and others if children are being left untaught and unsupervised while teachers go about their personal affairs.
  • You absorb the mostly unwritten and untaught rules for what to call people as you exit toddlerhood and proceed toward adulthood.
  • (untaught, unskilled) included dreams and oracles in which the diviner was a passive subject of inspiration, and the prediction that from a power supposed to be then and there within him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • In the mind of every man who has passed much of his life in successful action, there is a certain, if we may so say, untaught mathesis, -- but especially among those who have been bred to the art of war. The Last of the Barons — Complete
  • Hicks was not an untaught primitive; the naivety of his style belongs to an established tradition for he was apprenticed to a coach painter and later painted signs for inns and shops.

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