ignoramus

Example Sentences

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Fauci probably "thinks I am an ignoramus," Giuliani told The Post.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2020

The term ignoramus was written on bills of indictment when the evidence presented seemed insufficient to justify prosecution.

From Fox News • Mar. 30, 2020

At the risk of sounding like a complete ignoramus, I learned several new words and a term which is always fun: macher, shtetl, and work blue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2019

Bird ignoramus that I am, I’m paired with an eagle-eyed National Park employee who, for the length of our six-hour hike, abides my frantic cries of “There’s a bird!” and, sometimes, just “Bird?”

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2018

“That ignoramus Gowon pledged a miserable, measly amount for more than two million refugees. Did he think it was chickens that died and it is the surviving relatives of those chickens who have returned home?”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie