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Ignoramuses might suppose she entered deeply into things, and was thoroughly acquainted with human nature.

From Marriage by Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone

Pantagruel came to the island of the Apedefers, or Ignoramuses, with long claws and crooked paws, and of terrible adventures and monsters there.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Ignoramuses who don’t know an aumbry from an abacus, charlatans, amateur faddists, they will abuse our work.

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade