untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : untaught gentleness. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls] Reference
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'. From Wordnik.com. [Umrabulo] Reference
He called the untaught knaves, unmannerly. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
They are messengers to every man, gifted or untaught. From Wordnik.com. [Wise or Otherwise] Reference
Beauty drew from her an untaught and voiceless worship. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
And lastly, we have to-day before us the untaught child. From Wordnik.com. [The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral] Reference
The brightest boys in the town ran untaught in the streets. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
He was but a man, -- a poor, untaught, outcast, outraged man. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
Of unlettered, untaught heathen who knew not his god-like face. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
Till lately your boys have been as untaught and unwarned as ours. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference
The principles of self-mastery were unthought; they had been untaught. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Reading and writing were untaught, and the art of rhetoric was despised. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The person is as an untaught child, and is forced to begin re-education. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
He knew not what reefs there might be lying in wait for his untaught keel. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
The Master said, To take untaught men to war is called throwing them away. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
None knew the untaught and unteachable art of oratory better than Tecumseh. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference
To that purpose it is adapted when the hearers are untaught, untrained, and unreflecting. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
As an artist he was entirely untaught, save for Brine's quaint advice, and for the counsel of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
But about her was an atmosphere of intrinsic superiority, that the most untaught felt and appreciated. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
They were not merely illiterate and untaught, but showed also an extremely low grade of reasoning power. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
A mind untaught, a heart undisciplined, a spirit unsubdued, in a civilized community, is not fit to be married. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Evidently those beautiful verses had struck a chord hitherto mute in the heart of the poor untaught London waif. From Wordnik.com. [Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets] Reference
The sculptures are all executed by an untaught workman of the place, who died before he had completed the pulpit. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Not every author who says to the public 'excuse my untaught manner' is on this account to be regarded as a literary ingénu. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
In the case of the untaught student it was conscious, and was exactly what he would have been instructed to do by a teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Europe; but it saw also an industrial population, untaught and uncared for, sink deeper and deeper into savagery and misery. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
How could I, all untaught, suspect that upon the issue of such a victory would depend the happiness or misery of my after life?. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Wild fancies sway the untaught mountaineers, responsive to Nature's wonders, though powerless to interpret their signification. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Rough and untaught, his only skill was shown by the dexterity with which he manipulated the cards that secured to him his livelihood. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
I will not stop to say how or why; but I first taught them to respect and to confide in Englishmen, and no one else has yet untaught them this lesson. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
If they are cruel to animals, for instance, it always reminds me of children pulling off flies 'legs, in a sort of pitiless, untaught, experimental way. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
The backs of poker decks were so cunningly marked that while the wise ones could read their size and suit across the table, no untaught eye could detect their guile. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
All unconsciously, the boy was accomplishing one of the most difficult portions of the task which he had set for himself, -- the winning of those rough, untaught hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
And when she came to the bottom, her fair feet and her fair hands, untaught that ought could hurt them, were bruised and torn, and the blood flowed in full a dozen places. From Wordnik.com. [Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French] Reference
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