Sentence examples for was barely educated from inspiring English sources

My dad was barely educated.

She might have been an intellectual like her aunt, but she was barely educated.

When I told him that I was barely educated, he looked momentarily confused and said: "Well, you've done OK".

I was appalled to read that the amiable, down-to-earth former chat show host lovably known to British TV viewers as "Parky" considered her to "represent all that's paltry and wretched about Britain today" because "she was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know drugs and crime" and was "barely educated".

A worrying proportion of those who do graduate are barely educated.

Married at 15, she is barely educated and speaks only the guttural Emirati dialect of Arabic.

He rose to the top of the organized crime pyramid, despite being barely educated and expanded the Sinaloa cartel into a criminal organization with a global reach.

Interviews with former military officials and government officials, local residents and a former Taliban member who worked in proximity to Mr. Mehsud's inner circle portrayed him as a militant leader who is barely educated, attracts more knowledgeable people to his side and is ruthless in his goal of an extreme form of Islamic rule.

He was not only barely educated -- "he had problems with spelling" -- but also, in the words of the Russian sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, with whom he engaged in a public debate on aesthetics, "the most uncultured man" he had ever met.

The fact that crystals survive the mining process at all is something of a miracle, given that we're talking about barely educated people working with hand tools and explosives.

Many addicts are mentally ill or barely educated; many are homeless.