An semiliterate scrawl.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

That was another problem in a semiliterate society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soprano Sorceress]

He was shy and semiliterate when he went behind bars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Terrorist] Reference

It sounds like mumbling and it reads semiliterate at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Name that Blogging Tory!] Reference

Awwww, how can you say that about a poor, semiliterate farmer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 March « raincoaster] Reference

He did a lot of philosophizing, typical semiliterate Georgia boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Stetson Kennedy, May 11, 1990. Interview A-0354. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

He scribbled off a note in semiliterate Hardornen to Kerst directly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Rising]

And beyond any semiliterate reador of Sowell's actual column as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semiliterate adolescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [terrarose Diary Entry] Reference

My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semiliterate adolescent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Hopkins and Larry Summers in Creative Writing 101] Reference

His handwriting was so poor that even his semiliterate chauffeur noticed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mulla Omar Off The Record] Reference

Do you supposed our semiliterate friend meant to ask "who was Mark Twain?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ladies and gentlemen: Your National Wingnut Post.] Reference

The same bad schoolboy rhymes, the same semiliterate attempt at high-flown language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Concrete Blonde]

A semiliterate, dissociative, generationally correct vagueness permeates everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Web 2.0 Bubble] Reference

"The problem is there are many athletes graduating from schools who are semiliterate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Public university athletes score far below classmates on SATs] Reference

I wonder if the 'taking money' criterion was more appropriate to a semiliterate society.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: PRESS.] Reference

She would never get mixed up with a semiliterate man who made his living with his fists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Again No More] Reference

Because he is illiterate or semiliterate, he is unemployed or works as an unskilled laborer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disordered Minds]

Paulos explains the reasons why most Americans are semiliterate or innumerate as he puts it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences « Books « Literacy News] Reference

· Publication of a manual on basic beekeeping, for semiliterate readers, in Bahasa Malaysia.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. The jab-seeder a tool for manual seeding] Reference

These maps of the literate were only a little more useful than the rumors of the semiliterate.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference

Eventually he led me to a semiliterate jewelry salesman with wide-set eyes and a penchant for gold chains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Al-Qaeda’s Hard Drive] Reference

In an interview with the Guardian last year, he described them as a bunch of greedy, uncultured, semiliterate oiks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander Lebedev: profile] Reference

I'm torn between supporting the blue-nosed, lawsuit-happy elitists, and the semiliterate, poorly compressed marauders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flickr Fans Flustered Over Video Posting] Reference

Page 76 thirty-two-page manuscript was obviously written by a semiliterate black Virginian, living in Richmond, in 1847.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fields's Observations: The Slave Narrative of a Nineteenth-Century Virginian] Reference

Stern is thus, by his own admission, a semiliterate civil service clotheshorse hired to display any lie his masters want.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

To the impoverished and semiliterate, an education such as mine was viewed as godlike because of the power it represented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will]

It is the hand of a semiliterate girl — perhaps one of the scowling adolescents — blobbed and reckless in its excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

When I buy a book from a publisher, I know that, good or bad, at least it won't turn out to be 300 pages of semiliterate drivel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: "No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese."] Reference

Just because one can forgive the infrequent use of such a construction by children or the semiliterate does make it “correct.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Originalism and Linguistic Questions] Reference

In fact, they felt shown up because, coming mostly from peasant backgrounds and being semiliterate, they could not understand Marx.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

The samples are from pictorial booklets for semiliterate and illiterate audiences, and demonstrate the need for clear visual illustrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

They are semiliterate in either English or Spanish.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

With Leather - Sports news and gossip for semiliterate chimpanzees.    From Wordnik.com.  [BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference

Many are semiliterate in either English or Spanish, despite being born in the USA.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This poor dignified man has had to explain his nobility to the semiliterate of half of.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Oh, great, throw chum into the tank of semiliterate von Mises idolators, why don't you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference