Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The doctrines or principles of the Know-nothings.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Republicans have a romance with knowing nothing as long as one seriously believes in their know-nothingism.
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’
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This is the kind of know-nothingism that undermines public support for vaccination altogether and leads to such public health milestones as California reporting in 2010 the highest number of whooping cough cases in 55 years.
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I'm aware that the history of American politics teems with deceit, vulgarity, spectacle, corruption and know-nothingism.
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You may despair that the rationality required to face up to reality will never overcome the fundamentalism, know-nothingism and magic thinking that has a hammerlock on our national psyche.
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The issue for them isn't Perry's good 'ol boy know-nothingism on a host of issues -- that's a plus in this Tea Party Invasion-of-the-Republican-body-snatchers season.
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The candidates have picked up on a strand of know-nothingism also at work in the states.
Eric L. Lewis: Demagoguery and Sharia: Reviving an American Tradition
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This is the kind of know-nothingism that responsible conservatives -- or, for that matter, anyone who believes that the Internet should be a self-regulating forum in which bad ideas get weeded out -- should be denouncing.
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Whether by design or not, Sammon's directive implies a strategy to sneak some of the most improbable climate know-nothingism into supposedly objective newscasts.
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My guess is, the only way to confront this incipient, embarrassing know-nothingism is to do exactly what Cole has done here ... and to make the name as familiar, and unthreatening, to Americans as Michael Jordan's is.
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I think that the GOP turned off _everybody_ with its know-nothingism, disproportionately minorities.
frogapplause commented on the word know-nothingism
The doctrines or principles of the Know-nothings.
October 9, 2010