Definition of "uncredentialed" [uncredentialed]

• Not having proper credentials: "the ministrations of uncredentialed healers” ( James S. Gordon). (abbreviation)

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• "Where two or three years ago there was hardly anything that could not be traced to a newspaper story or broadcast, today my "news" is at least 50 percent created from what might be termed uncredentialed journalists doing original reporting and commentary."
• "Academic scholars have a great need to feel superior to the mass of unenlightened and uncredentialed readers -- I will foreswear the temptation to speculate on why this is the case -- and increasingly academic literary scholars found it necessary to consider themselves superior even to the writers and the literary texts they ostensibly study."
• "Five weeks training does not make these uncredentialed grads "highly qualified," despite the recent shenanigans by Congress."