ignoramus
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Of course Shallow is an ignoramus -- his very name is a give-away; of course he is an incompetent Justice of the Peace who learned nothing at Clemen's Inn except where to find the local prostitutes.
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- noun An ignorant person.
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- No person bearing my family name had been an ignoramus, and I did not choose to be the first to bear the label. — Madeleine An Autobiography
- But he wanted to suggest that Froude was an ignoramus, and for the purpose of beating a dog one stick is as good as another. — The Life of Froude
- There was some little excitement at the election; one of the members of the old Board had been called âan ignoramus,â in the stress of battle, and being much concerned and mystified asked a neighbour what the term signified, adding, no doubt thinking of a hippopotamus, that he believed it was some kind of animal! — Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
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Of course Shallow is an ignoramus -- his very name is a give-away; of course he is an incompetent Justice of the Peace who learned nothing at Clemen's Inn except where to find the local prostitutes.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 4 -
I wonder if this ignoramus is aware that by saying that, it implies that one has the right to scam those who don't know any better.
— The Red Tape Chronicles
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- From New Latin ignōrāmus, a grand jury's endorsement upon a bill of indictment when evidence is deemed insufficient to send the case to a trial jury, from Latin, we do not know, first person pl. present tense of ignōrāre, to be ignorant; see ignore.
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/ (ĭgˌnə-rāˈməs)/
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