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  • adjective without an academic degree

Etymologies

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degree +‎ -less

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Examples

  • As DeGlopper notes long before bentu wenhua became the subject of the fashionable newspaper supplements, Lugang had a strong sense of its distinct identity and of a pre-history, before Japanese colonization and Nationalist rule which evinced a kind of timeless past: The old days before the Japanese, while frequently invoked, seem to be thought of as a static moment, a sort of degreeless noon.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • I have two smart, talented, wonderful stepdaughters, one of whom is a first-year medical student the other is finishing her master's in voice pedagogy - and they both impress the heck out of little ol' degreeless me.

    More proof feminism hasn't outlived its usefulness Amazonfemme 2004

  • I have two smart, talented, wonderful stepdaughters, one of whom is a first-year medical student the other is finishing her master's in voice pedagogy - and they both impress the heck out of little ol' degreeless me.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Amazonfemme 2004

  • Some of our best thinkers were degreeless, self-educated men and women.

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998

  • Some of our best thinkers were degreeless, self-educated men and women.

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998

  • Some of our best thinkers were degreeless, self-educated men and women.

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998

  • Some of our best thinkers were degreeless, self-educated men and women.

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998

  • The case of those who are in the last selection and are left degreeless, for the stern reason that some must be crowded out, is the hardest of all.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

  • There also went the confidential secretaries, the clerks and shorthand typists, in their hundreds; degreeless, brainless beings, but wise in their generation.

    Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

  • A university can confer a degree upon a distinguished man because it can judge whether his degreeless condition is due to accident or not.

    The Cult of Incompetence ��mile Faguet 1881

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