I'm functionally illiterate.
I have been illiterate for so long.
"If she hadn't done that, I'd be illiterate," Miller says.
Broadcast medium called best for reaching poor and illiterate.
As many as half remained illiterate or semi-illiterate in both Vietnamese and English and never became U.S. citizens.
He was fond of calling his detractor illiterate, denouncing his scientific theories as illegitimate and illusive.
Most of the older miners have just a primary school education and some are illiterate.
In his free time, he wrote letters home for wounded and illiterate Civil War soldiers.
Still, most Afars remain illiterate, with little access to clean water or to medicine.
She was born to an illiterate mother who ran her own hacienda.
Not bad for an illiterate Ethiopian peasant who as a child never went to a day of school.
Frau Schmitz was illiterate almost all her life; she only learned to read and write in prison.
In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although he hated books,this caused him to be not wholly illiterate.
But the number of people choosing to be malnourished, illiterate, lacking in basic possessions and drinkers of dirty water all at once is probably fleetingly small.
We see so many statistics that horrify us: how many are hungry, how many are illiterate, how many are denied access to clean water and sanitation.
Years later we realized her marks were a ruse. My mother was illiterate; she had only received a third-grade education.
Dismissive of Waheeba, she scorns the very idea that this lump of a woman, “obese, menopausal, illiterate”, could be her rival in anything.
The daughter of an illiterate mother who encouraged her daughter to read and write, she tells me when she was young she was mocked as she walked to school alone.
He read everything and talked about what he read to his fellow townsmen, patients who were illiterate peasants, the estate shepherds, and this gave him a local reputation for foolishness.
Second, about one-third of the population is considered “illiterate”, meaning in this context that not even a full-fledged medical EEG can convert their brain activities into actions.
If one is illiterate here, it is only because he wants to be, because education is free and so is the health care, which is fundamental in our lives.
A former groom and then a jockey and quite illiterate, he was a protege of the notorious Christian Weber, one of Hitler's oldest party cronies and himself a horse fancier, who by fraudulence had amassed a fortune and a great racing stable after 1933.
