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subliterate
[ suhb-lit-er-it ]
Word History and Origins
Origin of subliterate1
Example Sentences
His characterization and speech share a lot with Owens’ depictions in earlier books of some African people as wide-eyed and subliterate.
Bulawayo even delights in satirizing a certain U.S. president, represented here as a tweeting primate prone to subliterate warnings of electoral malfeasance.
Back in the benighted 20th century comic books were seen as subliterate trash for kiddies and intellectually challenged adults – badly written, hastily drawn and execrably printed.
Perhaps the emotional quotient was juvenile, but the reading level was above subliterate.
To test that the words he was reading are above the subliterate level, I ran a few of his remarks through the Flesh–Kincaid calculator.
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