How to Use untutored in a Sentence

untutored

adjective
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  • To the untutored eye, the runners seemed to be jogging most of the way.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
  • To my untutored nose, the smell was only that of hot chicken.
    — Stephanie Schorow, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Belief in the untutored wisdom of the masses is the stuff of socialist fantasies.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • Shakespeare’s untutored mingling of fools and kings seemed odd, so dramatists often rewrote his texts.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2019
  • But great works of art, even when difficult, often allow the untutored a glimpse into their beauty.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • To untutored ears, gqom can sound gritty, with its apocalyptic sirens and ribcage-rattling bass.
    — Kate Hutchinson, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Big waves and their manifest risks captivate far more viewers than the small to medium-sized waves on the World Championship Tour, where, to the untutored eye, all the surfers seem to be doing basically the same things.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • But where untaught formlessness is the ideal, the formative character of such an enterprise is suspect, a threat to the authentic, untutored self.
    — Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Democrats say President Trump is untutored but then deny the qualified personnel to advise him.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • An electrical problem as simple as a headlight malfunction can drive the untutored owner nuts.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The production skillfully underlines the jocular elements of the score while taking the more sinister idea of the untutored hero, who acts on instinct and can be manipulated, to its logical conclusion.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • Campaign staffers, then, tended to be either untutored, of questionable scruples, unvetted, or unfireable by virtue of family ties—or to possess several of those traits in combination.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
  • For another thing, every such proposal tramples all over fair-minded moral intuitions of regular folks, intuitions disqualified by philosophers as primitive and philosophically untutored.
    — New York Times, 12 July 2019
  • The masonry was deceptive—seemingly untutored, actually sophisticated.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2021

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