confession of ignorance
Example Sentences
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While we have no reason to dispute Kennedy’s confession of ignorance about the nation’s security, we do know a great deal more than he lets on.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2019
I also knew that universities did not reward ignorance, or the confession of ignorance, and so I kept my ignorance to myself and pretended that I knew what I was doing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2017
And the good people here are astonished at a confession of ignorance of such matters, and take it rather personally as a lack of good-will toward them.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl
He made curious blunders, at first, as to the proceedings, but his open confession of ignorance in the early letters made these blunders their chief charm.
From The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Paine, Albert Bigelow
On the other hand, the confession of ignorance is still worse.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
