Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not interested in or able to read artistic literature.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being language that is dialectal, slangy, or full of jargon.
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- adjective Having
inferior literacy skills. - noun A subliterate person.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But then here's the astonishing fact about Digital Barbarism: Though the Internet is a waste, though blogs are "subliterate" and wiki's are written "the way Popeye speaks," Helprin draws exclusively upon the Internet to form the knowledge he needs to launch his attack.
Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism) 2009
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I'll see if I can figure this out, you must keep in mind that I'm a computer "subliterate".
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You've already mastered the caps lock key, so you're a step ahead of most subliterate republitards on the internet.
First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election 2009
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But you guys are the second commencing class since the last election, and a mighty change has been made, a page of sheer unadulterated chicanery, mass murder and horror written in embarrassingly awful subliterate prose has been turned, and on the very next page, to what in my opinion should be our continuing surprise, relief, ecstatic joy, it turns out that the story of a functioning, participatory pluralist secular democracy is still being written.
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By the subliterate typewriter lemur behind the awful The Day the Earth Stood Still remake.
The best news since the Saints winning the Super Bowl! yendi 2010
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But you guys are the second commencing class since the last election, and a mighty change has been made, a page of sheer unadulterated chicanery, mass murder and horror written in embarrassingly awful subliterate prose has been turned, and on the very next page, to what in my opinion should be our continuing surprise, relief, ecstatic joy, it turns out that the story of a functioning, participatory pluralist secular democracy is still being written.
Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Enduring it all, I remained optimistic that my path would cross again soon with this unique Wunderfledermauskind: Bat Boy, who himself remained out in the world—too wily to hunt down like an animal, too wily to capture, even too subliterate to interview.
Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010
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You come across as a subliterate Republican nitwit.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Attacks Hillary As Calculating And Divisive 2009
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You come across as a subliterate Republican nitwit.
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Unlike the subliterate cretin presently occupying the White House, Carter was one of the few presidents of my lifetime who was a consistently impressive extemporaneous speaker.
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