Definition of "aliterate" [aliterate]

• Able to read but not interested in reading. See Usage Note at literate. (adjective)

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• "I would say there are many in my generation that are as "aliterate" as the younger generation mentioned in the LA Times - though I don't know what the percentage comparison would be."
• "And if that doesn't work, the aliterate malcontents resort to book burning demonstrations."
• "I, too, thanks to the wonder of the Internet can be a slush reader... publishers give me that factor that the work had to meet the requirements of the publisher to get distributed, thereby eliminating forests full of manuscripts regarded as commercially unviable, most of which I expect I would regard and aliterate and vile."