semiliterate

IPA: sɛmɪɫˈɪtɝʌt

Examples of "semiliterate" in Sentences

As long as the computers are semiliterate, the clerks will have jobs.
She would never get mixed up with a semiliterate man who made his living with his fists.
In an interview with the Guardian last year, he described them as a bunch of greedy, uncultured, semiliterate oiks.
Just because one can forgive the infrequent use of such a construction by children or the semiliterate does make it “correct.”
Lawrence: Just because one can forgive the infrequent use of such a construction by children or the semiliterate does make it “correct.”
It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone.
Pity the poor textbook writer, charged not only with describing American history to semiliterate students our public schools rank 49th in the nation but also with locating transgendered Americans who made their marks upon it.
Ms. Suchaski said the Hatchechubbee Post Office is a place where locals trade news about births and deaths and the occasional loose cow, and where service extends beyond the mail, to helping some semiliterate customers pay bills.