How To Use Ignorant In A Sentence

What I've generally de-duced is that men in their twenties are ignorant of the relevance of most feminist issues and think feminists are in varying degrees: full of hot air, lesbians, killjoys. Feminist blogs in english » 2008 » July
Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass. William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality
There were some stunningly ignorant comments on the wero, asking why important visitors to New Zealand were greeted by "a Maori New Zealander jumping around half naked".
In the beginning, I had visions of a fabulous, sweeping, Perspex spiral staircase, ignorant of the fact that this would cost about £35,000.
_Educated rascality is infinitely more of a menace to society than ignorant rascality_. Pushing to the Front

I've come to the conclusion that democracy must fail because the demos is either too ignorant or unintelligent for it to work. Leviathan Montgomery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He may be anÂignorantÂor thoughtless person, but I no more think he is a homophobe for using the word "faggot" than I believe any of you areÂhomophobesÂfor using the word "sissy. Scott Mendelson: Thoughts On The Brett Ratner Mess: When Explicit Slurs Become Part Of Everyday Language And How To Deal With Their Casual And Out-of-Context Use
That these reports were generated would only be a surprise to anyone who was pig-ignorant of the requirements of 8-K disclosures. Congressional inquiry confirms: Waxman is an idiot*. | RedState
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
His efforts to portray himself as unsophisticated and ignorant of legal matters were not consistent with the record.
Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? and, to humour the ignorant, I have calld the deer the princess killed, a pricket. Act IV. Scene II. Love’s Labour’s Lost
When you ask (rhetorically) whether an ignorant person can have a deep insight, I think you betray your attitude.
I fancy that he supposed me ignorant of the matter, or thought that if I had heard of it, I should never connect the respectable Dr. Black of Harlesden with a poor garreteer in the backwoods of London. The House of Souls
Banks rely on us being a bit lazy, a bit afraid of change, and a bit ignorant about what is available.
revoke" -- the literary act after which, if he does it on purpose, you must not play with a man -- is speaking of authors and books which he has not read and cannot read in the original, while he leaves you ignorant of his ignorance. Matthew Arnold
When he's not yammering ignorantly about the Catholic Faith and struggling to find new ways to square the circle, he's often quite good.
Oh she played ignorant when I upbraided her, but I suspect she knew exactly what she was doing.
Greek name perpetuated by the people and referring to this covering of hoary pines -- a name which the cartographers, arbitrary and ignorant as they often are, have unconsciously disguised. Old Calabria
This killer is an overbearing, ignorant smart aleck .... Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
No redub, edit or censor could change the fact that she asked an ignorant question with a derogatory, skeptical tone. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Kevin McCarthy on Rebecca Aguilar
Get your dumb "redkneck" ass off of the site you idiot non thinking retard, Oh! sorry that would be an insult to retards, you sub-human freak. (i only used the term retard for affect, i do not or cannott have ignorant positions like you, so let me be clear about that). Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
General David Petraeus, in a rare public show of indecorum, last week suggested that corruption has been a part of Afghan culture since the country came into existence, which is a sentiment that is not only, from a historical and anthropological perspective, wholly ignorant, but one that exposes intentions on the General's part that seem both dubious as well as misplaced. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling
I wrote various things for newspapers afterwards and I was totally ignorant and unpracticed.
“A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among — Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery! then I fear you are equally a stranger to the more modern names of Gibson and Bartlett?” Rob Roy
Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes. In Praise of Folly
To such had the policy of the great Irish leader brought the ignorant people who trusted him and his hirelings.
I will continue to not know such-and-such if I'm treated like an ignorant, unsophisticated fool.
Most of these dear people are even ignorant as to who 'bogie' is, or why we should be so proud of beating him. The Rosary
Sometimes he presents her as a vain and trivial woman, sometimes as merely ignorant and fearful.
This letter, being so excellently ignorant ... it comes from a clodpole. Season finales
What are the most brilliant fancies of a child or of a mere ignorant "romancer," compared to the amazing visions of the Arctic regions or the high Alps, which we have seen? Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters
Wise men become wiser as they grow older, ignorant men more ignorant.
July 28th, 2009 12: 11 pm ET for all of you who label southerns as racist better check your history the area that had the most problems in busing was your boston from that liberal state of mass. also a lot of dems like byrd and gores daddy where part of the kkk and without republician help lbj great society and civil rights bills would not have pased. all you who pass judgement on southerns just do not have a clue you are self seving elitest who are just plain ignorant of the facts i have lived in the midwest south and northeast those from the northeast are the worst as far as being self serving and judgemental Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'
The Philosophical Transactions, * [629] in the last century contain accounts of Cesarean section performed by an ignorant butcher and also by a midwife; and there are many records of the celebrated case performed by Jacob Nüfer, a cattle gelder, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The fact that you know enough to make a joke about semiotics tells me you're not as ignorant as you'd like people to believe. THE LAST PLACE
Man, I almost choked on my shreddies, that is SUCH a classic totally ignorant American point of view! Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
What I now say, even they that are mere idiots are not ignorant of: for they say commonly (touto eferen autw) that is, Meditations
The marginal are not rational; they are ignorant; they lack discipline; they are disorganized; they lack proper language and manners.
Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation ¾ and who in the next breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary. Greg Barrett: Obama's speech bridges the Abrahamic faiths
So he bore with his injurious usage, saying to himself, Verily insolence and evil-speaking are causes of perdition and cast into confusion, and it is said, ‘The insolent is shent and the ignorant doth repent; and whose feareth, to him safety is sent’: moderation marketh the noble and gentle manners are of gains the grandest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I can say as a parent that I was often innocent and occasionally deliberately ignorant about the areas of sin in my own life.
You showed up and admited you were ignorant, that all you knew and cared about is that we were attacked on 9/11. Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate
No, a statement based on knowledge, unlink your ignorant ramblings. Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
The Dudley are crude, ignorant, violent and much-loved by wrestling fans across the world.
However, you certainly have no problem exercising your right to be self-centered and ignorant to world affairs.
Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Fuckhead, calling someone a dimwitted fossil is an insult, you ignorant pustule. Matthew Yglesias » A Telling Slip on Detainees
He regarded most of the new people as noisy, assertive, and ignorant of maritime knowledge, traditions and courtesy.
He buys one and thinks as he eats it how he used to pretend that he didn't like yams, chitterlings, and other soul food because he thought liking that food made him seem ignorant and common.
As a native of the area around Mobile, Alabama, a place long ridiculed by many as the nation's stepchild, it amused me that what was disdained as a redneck corner of the universe populated by ignorant and racist whites and besieged blacks became the "sunbelt" in the 1970s and as soon as those "cheeseheads" arrived in "crackerland" with no more need for their snowtires and discovered giant flying cockroaches and mildew among other horrors and complained mightily about the tropics they had naively sought, they became disenchanted. Lake Level Sucks 11-19-05
The lousiest and most ignorant commentary is to be found from those who are furthest from the day to day issues facing Israelis, inhabiting think tanks where the last thing they do is serious and honest thinking. bitterpill8 More on Khalidi and Antisemitism - Swampland - TIME.com
I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature. The Fortunes of Nigel
Moooikill A Aitcha Ha ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds. Ulysses
I had ignorantly imagined the Louisiana swamp as godforsakenly muggy, buggy, and hot.
I think its nothing short of rude and ignorant to attack a site set up to promote young feminism on the basis of ageism, I notice the same people are not attacking it for sexism.
As far as Roe vs. Wade goes, I'm somewhat ignorant on the inner political workings, but my thought is that McCain is going to find he has what Wodehouse likes to call a "pippin" on his hands if he tries to relegate Palin to high-school graduation speeches once in office. WordPress.com News
He confessed himself totally ignorant of their plans.
It’s a sad state of affairs in America when someone on national teevee is not ashamed of showing how ignorant he/she is of his/her fellow citizens’ lives. Think Progress » Chris Matthews on Obama during SOTU: ‘You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.’
God is only a word bandied about by the pseudo-intellectual, an illusion nourished by the ignorant, a luxury cultivated by the rich and the famous and an excuse used by the shirker.
It is like that subtle something which we call electricity; we can play with it, command it, lead it, neutralise it and die of it, make light and heat with it, or language and sound, kill with it and cure with it, while absolutely ignorant of its nature. The Witch of Prague
I know, that you are not ignorant of my parents and husband, of whom I am affected as deerely as his life, for proofe whereof, there is not any thing that I can desire, but immediately I have it of him, he being a most rich man, and may very sufficiently affoord it. The Decameron
I utterly agree with Inouye's example of responding ignorantly within five minutes. Inouye Calls Cheney Attack
Increasingly now those who "ignorantly" voted for him ... literally not pejoratively have awakened saying to themselves over and over and over again, "What the heck have I done? Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
The general public remained totally ignorant of the danger.
Many teenagers are surprisingly ignorant about current politics.
They were, as a rule, badly dressed, rude and ignorant.
Clark called the remarks hateful and ignorant, and said there can be no excuse for such comments.
If we give up our vague, devastating quest, I suspect the Iraqis will have a lot of suddenly frantic help from the chaos-sponsors and bystanders in their neighborhood, the countries which have been so deeply delighted at the ongoing spectacle of America's ignorant blunder, at the unhoped-for crippling of America, at the astonishing waste of American lives and resources. Frank Dwyer: Better Numbers
To the ignorant, a firefighter's job seems a skoosh.
He also believes it was written by people "who are obviously completely ignorant of basic endocrinology, which is required to evaluate a chemical that acts like the sex hormone estradiol. The Bellingham Herald: Sports News
Looking down from up here I can't decide if I'm looking at ignorant behaviour or stupid behaviour.
If my conversational partner refuses to acknowledge the thing which is taken as a given, then s/he reveals theirself to be either ignorant and/or deceptive; and then intelligent and reasoned conversation is not possible. The difficulty of demonizing the Tea Partiers: less than six degrees of separation
Extensive efforts (intellectual, spiritual and structural) have been undertaken to establish this continuity and preserve it in light of the changing fabric of the human experience and to ignore these efforts in favor of some revisionist notion of religion as changing out of pure expedience is as cynical as it is ignorant. A Response to a Response
New Zealanders, it seems, are simply too stupid and ignorant to be able to interpret our own laws properly; instead, we must go offshore.
y'all: contraction of "you all," a more musical, streamlined, unisyllabic take on the 2nd person plural than the northern phonetic catastrophe "you'ze guys." but y'all is a sadly misunderstood contraction, all too often torturously overused in fictional settings wherein "southernness" must be conveyed. in fact, y'all is rather more complicated than a mere drawling exercise in vowel manipulation, and only an ignorant yankee would treat it as such. Cherie puts her M.A. to marginally good use
I attended university as a mature student and was shocked at how ignorant and uneducated our student population actually is.
It has been a failure of all us atheistical Darwinists intent on dragging the world, kicking and screaming, into the 1860s, and out of the clutches of the religion-be-deviled proudly ignorant dark-age-living creationists. David Horton: And then god said, "Let there ... oh, you already have life"
Stereotyping is the refuge of those who are afraid, ignorant, ill-informed, or just filled with hatred.
Our masses are ignorant of their religion and easily indulge in customs borrowed from polytheists.
Both believe that the Bible can do ignorant, sensual savages no good; both believe that nothing but compulsatory power can restrain uncivilized barbarians from polygamy, inebriety, and other sinful practices. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
I'm tired of war mongering, racist, ignorant, thieving, brain washed, Blue Dogs, fake Dems, corporate villain Republicans pretending to be Christians. House Dem to switch to Republican Party
Could Germany have taken this absolutely "committal" position if she had been ignorant of what Austria intended to do? Fighting For Peace
Such epic historical recreations in film have in the past left themselves open to severe criticism with their somewhat loose, sometimes ignorant interpretations of fact.
The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed "thunder-besom" is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
The only reason he gets interviewed is because he is counted on for outrageous, false, incendiary, bigoted and otherwise ignorant comments. Think Progress » Conservative Catholic League President Bill Donohue Defends Beck: Many Of His Critics Are ‘Phonies’
Iâ€™d add support for a Jewish cultural, religious, academic, and educational reneaissance: supported as central to the idea of what it means to be a people with a faith and a homeland, and enacted in a pluralistic way that encourages the development of new and varied forms of Jewish-&/Israeli civilization, without being ignorant of its histories. Towards a New Pro-Israel Left | Jewschool
The battle could not have been fought forty years ago, because, on one side, the Church was an idle phantasm, the gentleman too ignorant, the workman too merely animal; while, on the other, the Manchester cotton-spinners were all Tories, and the shopkeepers were a distinct class interest from theirs. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
Perhaps Shakespeare's most famous play, Romeo and Juliet combines the contrasting elements of humor and sorrow, bawdiness and civil strife, and innocent love and ignorant hate to rouse an amazing depth of mixed tenderness and tension.
He speaks to them of his own little "nippers" at home, and they in turn tell him of their father who is fighting, of their mother who now works in the fields, and of baby who is fearfully ignorant, does not know the difference between the French and the "Engleesch," and who insisted on calling the great English General who had stayed at their farm "papa. The White Road to Verdun
Many men that "attend church" do so to pacify their wives and/or "keep up an image" or ignorantly attemp to "placate" the God they don't even know. Pew: The more often you go to church, the more likely you think torture of terrorists can be justified | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Were they all pretending to be ignorant in order to trap him into making some punishable blunder.
Conservatives are ignorant, stupid, and evil, or some combination of the three.
Ultimately, when we talk about government, we are talking about a bunch of ignorant bullies, looters, and plunderers.
Though he was so ignorant still of eastern lore, that he hardly knew the meaning of the word mihrab, the arched recess looking towards Mecca, in the Mosque of the lawyer-saint Aboul The Golden Silence
In developing and democratizing countries, the masses are less ignorant, quiescent, or afraid than they once were.
So please save your noble, peace loving, one-with-nature savage schtick for the ignorant do-gooders who will mule, whimper, sob, slobber in maudeline fashion and plead for your forgiveness and that of your ancestors as an act of the collective white guilt that they exhibit. Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.
Cops are either not there in these places or they are pretty ignorant of these romantic interludes.
And as for the common, partial, and ignorant histories of France, written in our tongue, they generally make him a kind of backslider, who might have been a Huguenot Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
Even the well informed are ignorant of the extent to which they are subsidised.
The ignorant git, though, is to the right of Ms Sands' friend and colleague.
It is not proper for the government to keep the innocent ignorant in order to help the guilty.
First, plenty of Europeans are pig-ignorant of the recent past, let alone antiquity. America's incomplete vision of the past
Most mistakes are made because we are pressured, fatigued or ignorant of all the facts.
Whilst the chamade was beating, Colonel Cotton, sent by General Wills, rode up the street, and alighted at the sign of the Mitre: the firing meantime had not ceased from several of the houses: the common soldiers were ignorant of the real state of the case, and believed that General Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
Impressed with this convergency of testimony from so many different quarters, they will be utterly at a loss to account for the unanimity of these early witnesses -- all sharing in the same delusion, all ignorant that a false Mark has been silently substituted for the true Mark during their own lifetime, and consequently assuming as an indisputable fact that the false Mark was received by the Church from the beginning. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
The former observed, that the countess was a good sort of a body, but totally ignorant of good breeding, consequently aukward in her address. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
They remained centres of the devotion of their flocks, and the "curates," hastily gathered, who took their places, were stigmatised as ignorant and profligate, while, as they were resisted, rabbled, and daily insulted, the country was full of disorder. A Short History of Scotland
But none can be ignorant of plenty of rules, touching the administration of civill justice: we finde enough in the word, to bound the exorbitancy, and set banks to the pride and injustice of state. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
You never cease telling us, that the designs of God are impenetrable; that _his ways are not our ways, nor his thoughts our thoughts_; that it is absurd to complain of his administration, of the motives and springs of which we are totally ignorant; that it is presumption to tax his judgments with injustice, because we cannot comprehend them. Good Sense
This conversation started off ad hominem: I'm "solipsistic," misguided, I'm politically motivated, I'm ignorant of the basic facts and of the "meaning" of the text. Whether true or not
She is ignorant of the latest development in computer industry.
So, for thirty-two years I have preached to the most intelligent, biblically ignorant people I know, and as our introducer has said, it has made my reputation.
Maybe advertising copywriters are just ignorant and careless.
I would not see you grow up as ignorant of your magics as I did. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
And its understanding would help free future generations from stupid orthodoxies of all sorts: “the jack-in-office, the pompous official, the petulant commander, the ignorant pedagogue.” Parasite Rex
Those who had before frequented them did not discontinue their visits, and those who were ignorant of such places and seeking them, on seeing the emblazonment by the doors, cried out -- that is just what we wanted, and turned in. A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father
There's many sorts of drinks as we poor ignorant creatures calls intoxicating which is quite the thing with your tip-top teetotallers. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found
He was a complete pain, rude, ignorant, arrogant and judgemental.
Science has no enemy but the ignorant.
Finally, the existence of civilization allows man to remain innocent or ignorant about his true nature.
I am fully persuaded, that this was your original complaint in Carniola, which those ignorant physicians called, in their jargon, Arthritis vaga, and treated as such. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
I is an ignorant crack-a-lacking moron.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
The promenader disengaged himself with great difficulty from his warm embraces, regarded General Junot with an amazed air, and remarked that he was ignorant to what he could attribute such excessive tenderness from a soldier wearing the uniform of a superior officer, and all the indications of high rank. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
I an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men is sure of.
While the production is not as solid as a truly inspired "Swan Lake" might be, artistic director Kevin McKenzie's staging, "after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov," first shown in 2000, is one of the best looking and least ignorant around. These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers
How arrogant, how impossibly stupid and just how ignorant are we?
The waves went high as some cVillain knitters gave quite literate descriptions of methods and used words most often filtered and censored by otherwise hyper sensitive little interknit filters designed to moderate the durrty feelthy perverse words that may blind poor ignorant and unsuspecting interknitting surfers. Charlottesville Blogs
Such membership then permitted the dominant society to make the slaves ‘rightless.’ The slaves were also designated by masters as ignorant, backward, lazy, and untrustworthy, among many other negative characteristics.
Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
Vel propter ignorantium, quod bonis studiis non sit instructa mens ut debuit, aut divinis praeceptis exculta. Anatomy of Melancholy
‘O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity without beginning; 357 so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We are ignorant of the extent of the cavities which subterranean fires and volcanic agitations may have produced in the bowels of the earth in those primitive rocks, which, containing considerable quantities of amphibole, mica, garnet, magnetic iron-stone, and red schorl (titanite), appear to be anterior to granite. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
How is that?" said Peter, inferring that selling poor beer was a finable offence, yet ignorant of the statute. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
Shocked to hear that such an ignorant and crude boy could be her relation, she started to cry.
Why, who is so ignorant of fetial law as not to see that these men are saying this, not because it represents the fact but to prevent their being surrendered? The History of Rome, Vol. II
He abhorred the arrogant youngsters intruding on companies of whose staff and products they were wholly ignorant, brandishing maxims that threw hundreds out of work.
Shakspeare's day and that of our own, I call assure him that I am not quite so ignorant of the fact as he imagines. Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850
She is very ignorant about her own country.
Advertising has never invented anything except what artists have invented� It appropriated the Beautiful which the cinema of the New Wave had rejected, which makes certain ignorant critics say that beautiful equals advertising. GreenCine Daily
That other honour to our profession, Roker, is well versed in chicane, and knows more of the law, or rather of its abuse, than an honest man would wish to know; but Fisherton is so ignorant that, while his lavish expences continually reduce him to necessities that drive him into bold attempts at robbery, his skill in managing them is so inferior that he is almost always baffled, and has been more than once exposed. ' The Old Manor House
This is not only simplistic but it is even ignorant of pain-provoking peripheral nerve fibres now known to exist in man.
Hence the Negro, at the close of the war, was all that American slavery would make any people, viz.: bestialized and animalized; ignorant, poor, crude, rude; helpless, moneyless and thoughtless. Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
My sense is that quite a lot of them are vincibly ignorant, and thus culpable to one degree or another. CONFIRMED
Close only counts in horseshoes, buddy, and getting simple idioms wrong makes you look ignorant. 'Dollhouse' canceled: Are we peeved or pleased by this development? | EW.com
Is there, then, any explanation of that vision more rational than that the spirit thus closely affined with my own was enabled, through its innate potencies, or through some agency of which we are ignorant, to impress upon my bodily perceptions its uncontrollable emotions? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
Health advisers marveled that hayseeds could be so ignorant.
I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined. Chapter 2
Because recorder players are resolutely pig-ignorant where string instruments are concerned.
Pilotshark says: pezmiztix says: and the fact that chinese were brutalized and raped by the japan. by the japan? japan is a country, remember us dropping two atomic bombs on the japan, how do you thing the china felt about that. you know you are not even smart enough to be ignorant, you unpatriotic coward. Think Progress » Right-wing Saudi dynasty endorses right-wing Fox News dynasty.
The Hagen was a free-and-easy place compared with the Rheinischer, and among its inmates there was no one who could sing a better song than manly George -- type of the Briton at whom foreigners stare -- who, ignorant of a word of their language, wholly unprovided with any authorisation save the passport signed "Salisbury," and having not quite so much business at the seat of war as he might have at the bottom of a coal-mine, gravitates into danger with inevitable certainty, and stumbles through all manner of difficulties and bothers by reason of a serene good-humour that nothing can ruffle and a cool resolution before which every obstacle fades away. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
Science has no enemy but the ignorant.
It was the defendant, an unusually ignorant peasant, who was in awe of the courtroom.
If the knee be bruised as well as cut, a poultice should be applied, and changed two or three times a day; but on no account use gunpowder, which is a favourite remedy for broken knees with ignorant people, as it only irritates the wound. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
‘I think it is time that you leave this ignorant state’ she clapped her hands once.
He sounds rather more ignorant and ill-informed than the average bloke in the snug; distressing.
Malay, looks upon the Englishman as little removed from a "Kafir" -- an uncircumcised Philistine -- who through ignorance constantly offends in minor points of etiquette, who eats pig and drinks strong drink, is ignorant of the dignity of repose, and whose accidental physical and political superiority in the present world will be more than compensated for by the very inferior and uncomfortable position he will attain in the next. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
she is ignorant of quantum mechanics
Complaint Department: What a pity is it that I, so aged and crafty, am ignorant of this young upstart who haunts my every step! [AKICILJ] for forty days and forty night they rode through red blood to the knee
You can tell him from me he's an ignorant pig.
All the parties of the Scottish parliament should be fighting against the rantings of the ill-informed and ignorant.
This article provided a great deal of information to those ignorant of what Bob Jones stands for, but not enough.
You'll leak at embarrassing moments, and you may be on the receiving end of less than supportive comments from ignorant co-workers.
People who maltreat children are not necessarily uneducated, ignorant, and poor. Transcript: Child Abuse in Speculative Fiction « Coyote Con
Anyone who claims pubs will go out of business is ill informed or ignorant of the facts.
The real scandal is that a newspaper that once had some pretense to quality now prints ignorant drivel like this.
The drama discussed major problems being faced by ignorant and uneducated women, like accepting misyar (no obligation) marriages out of fear of spinsterhood. Arabnews - frontpage
However, it has not been "notified" yet (till 24th September 2009) and if we are honest it is not difficult to realise that it would never be notified despite ignorant contrary claims. Finally IT Amendment Act 2009 Of India Will See The Light Of The Day
Your brothers, to - day, are ignorant barbarians compared with me and the knowledge I have wrung from the books in the hours they were sleeping. Chapter 30
Christians who insist that the Bible is infallible (so long as they remain devoutly ignorant of the Bible's errors). Sound Politics: Global Warming Update
I believe that redounding yourself although, bringing up ignorantly like that injure Chinese culture really.
We have an arrogant and ignorant president with a brain addled by long use of alcohol and cocaine and other drugs. Think Progress » Rumsfeld Attacks Murtha: Says He Is Undermining Troops, Comforting Enemy
Most of the rest I think are just terminally chauvinist and ignorant.
Are these the words of the racists, the bigots, the ignorant, the xenophobes or the just plain stupid?
Here was the genuine article -- no, not the genuine article at all, we must go to Africa for that -- but the sort of creatures generations of slavery have made them: obsequious, trickish, lazy and ignorant, yet kind-hearted, merry-tempered, quick to feel and accept the least token of the brotherly love which is slowly teaching the white hand to grasp the black, in this great struggle for the liberty of both the races. Hospital Sketches
The problem in America is that there is too many manipulable ignorants that cannot think rationaly. Congressman says some people aren't worth peeing on
Perfectly calmly, reasonably, and without visible emotion, they were rehearsing a formula which even I, ignorant staff-walloper that I was, could see was one for disaster. The Sky Writer
In his self-satisfied sense of superiority, it never even occurred to him that he might have been addressing one of those ignorant rubes who voted for him.
Unless there has been some revolution in higher-level avian cladistics I've been completely ignorant of, the seriema is considered a fairly close relative of these magnificent predators. Big Bird
Wow, anonym, that is an amazingly ignorant comment. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
What the ignorant see as evil, the enlightened see as the actions of low-minded and immature individuals.
I would also have you acquire a general notion of fortification; I mean so far as not to be ignorant of the terms, which you will often hear mentioned in company, such as ravelin, bastion; glacis, contrescarpe, etc. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
If he'd truly been this ignorant about Jeff's attitude and Franklin's integrity, there was no telling what else he'd been skating through without a clue as to how bad things really were.
Don't give advice to fools. Don't argue with ignorant people. Don't associate with hypocrites. Dr T.P.Chia
The people of Florence are far from considering themselves ignorant and benighted, and yet Brother Savonarola succeeded in persuading them that he held converse with God.
Nathan Lee in the Voice: See Los Muertos with virgin eyes; this cool-headed enigma is best approached cold, ignorant of everything but the title. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 4/4.
In this day and age of exploding energy costs, it is just plain ignorant to plant evergreens where they don't belong.
For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece.
As far as quoting notorious self-hating Jews like Noam Chomsky, yimakh shmo, and that great but thankfully deceased champion of Arab dominion, Eddie Said, such verbiage will only appeal to the ignorant. Could There Be a One-State Solution? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
He would be incensed at having been entrapped by an ignorant enthusiastic declaimer into an admiration of objects whose authenticity may be questioned by the first cool examinant.
And it's ignorant, unhistorical, an act of murderous pessimism.
My problem is with stupid, ignorant and insulting queries like the one posed above.
Many of us wish he'd just go away, but ignorant bombast is a money maker in our society. On Rush Limbaugh And The Humane Society
I thought you hated the verdict just handed down? you mean blackwater is actually increasing their presence as we draw down troop levels? you mean we have a left President and a left Congress and blackwater levels are increasing? but how could that be? that goes against everything you libs stand for, that would make all you libs who cry about blackwater sound stupid and ignorant! how could that be??? Intel officer: CIA officers' deaths will be avenged
In fact, all we can do is confess our 'Kantian' ignorance at the limits of science as metaphysics and not be so determined to do all the foolish things ignorant people might wish to do, such as crossbreed man and chimpanzee, or produce chimeras of the type Dawkins so grinningly finds he would inflict on those less 'rational' than he. Darwiniana
He may be anignorantor thoughtless person, but I no more think he is a homophobe for using the word "faggot" than I believe any of you arehomophobesfor using the word "sissy. Scott Mendelson: Thoughts On The Brett Ratner Mess: When Explicit Slurs Become Part Of Everyday Language And How To Deal With Their Casual And Out-of-Context Use
It's ignorant and unmannerly to engage in this practice.
I'M GETTING SICK AND TIRED of the right wing nut jobs and their childish behavior, their ranting & raving and threats to congressman in townhall meetings ... and their scare tactics with the whole "just you wait til 2010" crap ... give me a break! the way these racists ignorant idiots are acting, there's no way we're going to allow them to continue holding seats in office!!! Republicans react to jobless report
The team does not feel the average person today is as ignorant toward shams and charlatans as they might have been just ten years ago.
By the end of the Civil War the backcountry idiom had been completely identified with the ignorant and buffoons.

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