ignoramus

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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.

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  1. 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 Thanks to the excellent training of my early childhood, I not only had the ideals, but I had the foundation on which to build an education My father had held that if a man were to study languages he should begin with his mother-tongue. —  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
  • -- Rosie O'Donnell is a political ignoramus, as are each and every one of the pathetically deluded 9 / 11 "truthers"; —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • 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
  • "A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus." —  Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums
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  1. 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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  1. Latin, literally we take no notice of (it), first person plural present indicative of ignorare, be ignorant of, take no notice of, ignore: see ignore.
 

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