Meanings of semiliterate in English

To be assailed by every semiliterate twinkie with a keyboard and an opinion?

The Pakistani electorate may be largely semiliterate, but its political sophistication has never been in doubt.

Some believed for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate...

I've published one slim volume of verse and some essays, but so has every other semiliterate writer in Cambridge.

He was semiliterate in map reading, but he stared at the map regardless, trying to divine where Tara might have crashed.

Everything considered, the evidence does not support the hypothesis of disguised handwriting; what it does support is the hypothesis of a semiliterate penman.

But Buzz Whittaker was stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany, as his mother proudly told everyone, showing off his semiliterate letters and occasional color postcards.

Get me a check from the gubmint, says I can't do no spells no mo, she said in a very plump and semiliterate voice.