Meanings of very illiterate in English

The guards, and, indeed, all the poorer class of Southerners, were very illiterate.

The majority of them are very illiterate, very few intelligent privates, comparatively speaking.

For, do you know, he impressed me as being a very illiterate man.

Mathews was an Irishman by birth, and was very illiterate, but a man of strong passions and indomitable will.

Bradford was very illiterate, and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of press-work.

His qualifications for office were all superlative: he was very short, very corpulent, very illiterate, very irascible, and very stupid.

Besides, they are very illiterate, and it is estimated that, of the total population of Bolivia, only about 30 per cent.

Months afterward, the British officer while conversing with Mrs. Jones, a witty American lady, sneeringly said, That Colonel Washington is very illiterate.