Examples of “unlettered” in a Sentence

adj Having had little or no schooling, and unable to read.

• They were short days, for into them were crowded many hours of insidious instruction of the unlettered child by the lonely woman. — , Edgar Rice Burroughs (1915)
• Thus, the oldest Price girl, Fanny, is plucked from her pack of siblings and, at 10 years old, largely unlettered, hypersensitive and extremely timid, the girl is thrust into the life of Mansfield Park, a great estate in the country. — Lauren Groff, Jane Austen’s Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood (2025)
• But this Chapman girl will come to us wholly unlettered. — Christopher Morley (1919)