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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unschooled

1580s, "untrained," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of school (v.). A verb unschool is attested from 1820.

Wiktionary
unschooled

a. 1 Not schooled; not having been to school. 2 inexperienced in something.

WordNet
unschooled

adj. lacking in schooling; "untaught people whose verbal skills are grossly deficient"; "an untutored genius"; "uneducated children" [syn: untaught, untutored]

Usage examples of "unschooled".

Antokolsky, the painter Repin, as well as Gartman, who were all receptive to his unschooled style of music, and more tolerant of his alcoholic ways, than the rather staid composers of St Petersburg.

Leave it to you unschooled Colonials to simply ignore the precepts of good breeding and gentle manners when it suits you.

Her kisses were unschooled, and despite the way she had touched him, he knew instinctively that she had been exploring a man for the first time.

Dumping whoever they wanted, including blacks too poor and too unschooled to know the maneuver was illegal.

Now there was a youth working in the tavern, a lad of no more than eleven and unschooled in everything save how to draw a mug of ale and wipe a table.

Sali was probably not the most alert of subjects, unschooled in countersurveillance.

Caudell wondered what the unschooled farmers who made up the bulk of the Castalia Invincibles would think of that.

The artwork was eclectic, a mix of the best of many periods and hands, including several African masks and a small stone figure that, to her unschooled eye, looked pre-Columbian.

I admire the unschooled eye, the instinctive reaction of the primitive artist to his or her surroundings, beliefs, culture.

Utterly unschooled, he seemed to intuit the workings of engines and motors, be they powered by diesel oil, gasoline, kerosene, air or electricity.

To the unschooled observer, the photographs showed the standard nuclear missile submarine.

She had just put the Red Knight in the same class as a unschooled freeman or villein, and she knew that he would not like it.

Thomas Nuttall, a bright but unschooled journeyman printer from Liverpool who came to America in 1808 and discovered an unexpected passion for plants.

It is not meant to be understood that Stevens found no pleasure himself in the display of that wild, unschooled imagination which was the prevailing quality in the mind of Margaret Cooper.

Her judgment was every bit as good as his, and unschooled as she might be in international relations, every day she made decisions that directly affected the lives of real people in the most immediate way.