The latter is a rude, nasty, semi-literate seeming buffoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Wolff: Could Carl Paladino Really Win?] Reference

My mother is completely illiterate and my father semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Hani] Reference

The LRA supremo, a semi-literate former altar boy, took charge in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

` How to Vote 'for thousands of semi-literate and illiterate citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

My parents were semi-literate farmers and they lived in the rural area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further on Castro Interview With SIEMPRE] Reference

Over 40 percent of the population is either illiterate or semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayibuye Editorial] Reference

Dame Beatrice knew better than to question the memories of the semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spotted Hemlock]

Derek Blades is certainly irrational in his assertion that I am semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Our African women form the bulk of our oppressed, illiterate and semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women 2001] Reference

They've been duped by a semi-literate who didn't have anything else to do but play president.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Founders Never Heard of Dumbing Down"] Reference

Poorly educated, illiterate or semi-literate people needed the greatest access to information.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Fourthly, the programmes should accommodate the needs of illiterate and semi-literate workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

One sentence, one semi-literate youth, one depressingly accurate summary of American education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonfire 2.0] Reference

The majority of Pakistan's civilians, Tariq Ali writes, are "poor, illiterate or semi-literate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Allison Kilkenny: Bombing the Pakistan flood victims into submission] Reference

It is particularly creditable that he bothered to reply at all to your own semi-literate letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The son of an illiterate father and a semi-literate mother, Abraham had little formal education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abe as He Really Was] Reference

These were semi-literate indigenous women, ages 30 to 40, who were qualifying for food donations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pro Mujer: Journey Towards Women's Empowerment In Latin America] Reference

After all, despite being semi-literate and almost wholly innumerate; they ARE going to kill us all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

I would rather vote with the "Homosexual Lobby" than with the semi-literate, Paularian Rapturite, facists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentuckians Receiving Fraudulent Robocall From "Homosexual Lobby" For Steve Beshear] Reference

We have conducted education courses in ` How to Vote 'for thousands of semi-literate and illiterate citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [VOTE! - AGAINST INTIMIDATION & SABOTAGE - VOTE!] Reference

Over 40 per cent leave by the time they have reached the second standard, in an illiterate or semi-literate state.    From Wordnik.com.  [WOMEN IN THE APARTHEID SOCIETY(1)] Reference

My semi-literate thoughts have been edited, burnished and focused by Erica Poellot, to whom I'm very grateful. digg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allan Clear: Syringe Exchange and the Police: An Alliance In Waiting] Reference

Botshabelo and was informed by management that 80 percent of the staff there were either illiterate or semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Posters to this and other sites are semi-literate, the products of schools that are indistinguishable from social clubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I will repeat this twice for all you who are semi-literate (99.99% unable to comprehend the written word of your mother tongue).    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaign: We're On The Verge Of Wrapping This Thing Up] Reference

The mere process of registering to vote was daunting for Black Mississippians, many of whom were poor and at best semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marian Wright Edelman: We Must All Register and Vote during This Historic Election] Reference

Kony, a semi-literate former altar boy, took charge in 1988 of a regional rebellion among northern Uganda's ethnic Acholi minority.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This amuses me because I think that a lot of the uneducated/semi-literate women that go to said clinic wouldn't even know what that means.    From Wordnik.com.  [whitehelmet Diary Entry] Reference

About 18 million of the 20 millon voters will be voting for the first time, including some 15 million who are illiterate or semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [SUSPENSION OF DEBI] Reference

Another semi-literate artist expressing himself through excrement-colored paints because his coworkers at Starbucks convinced him he hadit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glass Handcuffs] Reference

About 18 million of the 20 million voters will be voting for the first time, including some 15 million who are illiterate or semi-literate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CALLS FOR SUSPENSION OF DEBI'S VOTER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES] Reference

But after reading the semi-literate, misinformed comments of his supporters here for months, I guess I am really not that surprised at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: Teddy Kennedy's Speech Endorsing Obama] Reference