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subliterate

a. Having inferior literacy skills. n. A subliterate person.

Usage examples of "subliterate".

Eight bucks a ticket, for what Luther knew would be another dull two hours of overpaid clowns giggling their way through a subliterate plot.

In a subliterate society composed largely of slaves to galactic overlords ruling by fiat, the cunning little Survey Team had succeeded in turning the situation around by planting in the aliens an absolute hatred of their masters.

And the Shit audience—sub-age twenty-five, generally subliterate consumers of the planet's trendiest soft drink—were showing themselves amenable to subtle Bootstrap persuasion, mixed in with their diet of endless softsoaps and thongathons.

And the Shit audience -- sub-age twenty-five, generally subliterate consumers of the planet's trendiest soft drink -- were showing themselves amenable to subtle Bootstrap persuasion, mixed in with their diet of endless softsoaps and thongathons.