How To Use Ignoramus In A Sentence
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I assured him to the contrary, and conjured him to narrate to me the facts, an unacquaintance with which was sufficient it appeared to stamp me as an ignoramus of the first magnitude.
The Purcell Papers
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He has also been called a dunce, an ignoramus, a barbarian.
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
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It's Grendel ,' she told him and spelled it for the ignoramus.
INSIDERS
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From this it is but a short step to viewing those who oppose liberal ideas or policies as hidebound traditionalists, bigots, or ignoramuses.
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The words of the ignoramus known as glenn beck have no power here. glenn beck is not right, “technically right” or anywhere near right.
Think Progress » Beck: ‘African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race.’
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I've never met ignoramus like Lao Zhang, He can't even separate the sheep from the goat.
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I've never met any ignoramus like John. He can't even separate the sheep from the goat.
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Sometimes I am such an ignoramus, such a witless dope.
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Only fools or ignoramuses ever trust the word of government officials or politicians.
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In tremoribus vulgaribus, æqualibus temporum intervallis, non musculus, sed artus ipsemet alternatim attollitur aut deprimitur, aut in oppositas partes it atque redit per minima tamen spatiola; in palpitatione verò sine ullo ordine musculi unius lacertus subito subsilit, nec regulariter continuoque movetur, sed nunc semel aut bis, nunc minimé intra idem tempus subsilit; an causa irritans in sensorio communi, an in musculo ipse palpitante Quærenda sit, ignoramus.
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy
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They are ignoramuses of the highest order and deserve the treatment that will, sooner or later, come to them.
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Of course, the rhetoric is different, and while I'm not condoning it, there's a big difference between an ignoramus mouthing off in a pub, and firebombing someone's home.
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From this it is but a short step to viewing those who oppose liberal ideas or policies as hidebound traditionalists, bigots, or ignoramuses.
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They're just lazy good-for-nothing ignoramuses who are much better at civil disobedience and rioting than they could ever be at the much more difficult task of government and administration.
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‘I went from an antiques ignoramus into a devotee of ancient ceramic ware,’ Cai said.
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And the masses - stupid ignoramuses that we are - fell for it.
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So when I say I'm argute, I'm shrewd; an apple-knocker is an ignoramus, lollygagging is laziness, and a toplofty is an arrogant man.
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I see no reason why those few illegal immigrants and incorrigible ignoramuses like those found in predominately black areas should make one bit of difference in the political landscape.
Think Progress » Washington Post Reporters Upset About Links To Blogs
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This creates a cultlike atmosphere in which those who disagree with the ideology are considered ignoramuses or fools.
Attached to Strings
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After all, Americans are self-centered ignoramuses who ‘love to talk about things they know nothing about,’ as Rick Mercer proclaims.
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He is a cretin's cretin, a halfwit, an ignoramus in every respect.
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His career brought him in contact with the first men of his time; he preferred the company of rustic ignoramuses.
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I'm not exactly a yoga ignoramus - I used to do some out of a book and off vids when I wasn't pregnant some years ago, so I know a lot of the terms but I still felt very out of place.
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Signor Lanciani is a great man who combines being the top authority in his profession with a kindness and bonhomie which make even an ignoramus feel happy with him ” and with the frankest love for flanerie and “sport.”
Writer's Recollections
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Sed ecce quinque de nobis, duo Graeci et tres Hispani, semetipsos ab alijs segregantes, visi sunt alium requirere introitum nos praecedere cupientes, et cert� nos illos exinde non vidimus, et quid eis acciderit an periculum subierint, velne ignoramus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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In choosing guests to appear on cable news, bookers will almost always choose a glib ignoramus over an expert who can't talk in clipped sentences.
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He is a cretin's cretin, a halfwit, an ignoramus in every respect.
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He's an unlettered, un-bookish ignoramus, remember?
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Sed ecce quinque de nobis, duo Graeci et tres Hispani, semetipsos ab alijs segregantes, visi sunt alium requirere introitum nos praecedere cupientes, et certè nos illos exinde non vidimus, et quid eis acciderit an periculum subierint, velne ignoramus.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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In fact they are little ignoramuses who leave high school believing that their country has made nothing but mistakes, and they never do learn what revisionist history is a revision of.
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The truth is, probably, that Pantelaras just liked to show off his collection, even to an ignoramus like me.
UNREASONABLE DOUBT
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Echoing Goethe's Romantic interpretation and adulation, Belinsky's Bard ‘understood heaven, earth, and hell’ but was, nonetheless, an ‘ignoramus’, nescient of the meaning of his own plays.
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He shows himself to be an ill-mannered, thin-skinned, easily flattered narcissistic ignoramus, given to stupid jokes, banal observations, casual rudeness and hypocritical pieties.
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Far from being a national icon, Bonaparte is a weakling, a coward, a sluggard, and an ignoramus.
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The woman might have been a perfect ignoramus, but no one could deny she was a fine player, and had the figure for it.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Either you believe global warming is the worst problem mankind has ever faced and that cutting carbon is the only solution, or you are an antiscientific ignoramus who probably thinks the Earth is flat.
U-Turn On Global Warming? Hardly.
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This Great Moment in Black History has been sponsored by the same old ignoramuses who still think melanin is destiny.
January 2006
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He also accused some motorists of behaving like ignoramuses and cowboys who put business in jeopardy.
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I'm a complete ignoramus where computers are concerned.
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Fine Gael too look as if they may be about to modernise themselves thought there are some music ignoramuses who will have to be dragged kicking and squealing into the new era.
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Um, that a work of literature is not to be crushed and censored by ignoramuses whose ability to think has not yet passed the horizon of Pavlovian responses to ritually impure words?
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The honest working girl shuns the society of the wealthy wanton, and the stupid ignoramus, whatsoever his fortune, is accorded no seat at the symposiac -- is blackballed by the brotherhood of brains.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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‘I went from an antiques ignoramus into a devotee of ancient ceramic ware,’ Cai said.
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Expanding of colledge education combined with dumping of educational standards created a new demographic: ignoramuses who have no idea how ingnorant they really are.
Voting again for Carter II
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Schubert was an ignoramus, even in music; he knew less about polyphony, which is the mother of harmony, which is the mother of music, than the average conservatory professor.
A Book of Prefaces
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Like my Dad used to say, “Ignoramuses!” come now,,, you lie … as you need to be honest with yourself and come clean we all know you do not know who your daddy is and maybe the best part of you ran down his leg after paying your mom.
Think Progress » Tea Partiers Get Their News From Fox And Are More Likely To Justify Violence Against The Government
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There really is a need for those of us who do know the right things to think to take pity on the ignoramuses who don't and really correct them when they are wrong.
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The fact that it is too technical for the ignoramuses who run the proportional representation society is hardly a relevant argument.
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I'm a complete ignoramus where computers are concerned.
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I've never met ignoramus like Lao Zhang(Sentencedict), He can't even separate the sheep from the goat.
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Andrew Jackson, the first president from the western frontier, was unjustly accused of bigamy and derided as an unschooled ignoramus.
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It is a great thing for intellectuals to discuss politics, but we don't want ignoramuses to discuss politics.
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In his Wall Street Journal piece this week, he argues that if one doesn't understand the need to drastically cut carbon emissions to avoid dangerous climate disruption, then "you are an antiscientific ignoramus who probably thinks the Earth is flat.
James Hoggan: Bjorn Lomborg's Climate Confusionist Spin Is Never Ending
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Lucy treated it as the ignoramus question it was and refused to answer.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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No good teacher approaches his or her students as being ignoramuses just because they don't share the same level of knowledge.
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What other reason can there possibly be for the number of surly, bad-mannered ignoramuses I stumble across when I'm looking to use, order or buy anything?
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So in my view abusing them as ‘rednecks’ is grossly offensive, prejudiced and ignorant and those who use such terms just show what ignoramuses they themselves are.
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Commenters and bloggers from right to left, who normally spit and snarl at each other, have been as one in saying how awful she is, how scarey that a literal biblist and ignoramus with the geographical knowledge of a dormouse should have a chance of becoming President.
RosieBell
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And I'm not making movies for those ignoramuses.
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Isn't it a shame that we have these key people doing important things who are either incompetent ignoramuses or dumb as posts?
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I had hoped that my roommate would not have been one of those girls who swooned at the sight of those two ignoramuses.
