ignorant
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This “Animal Farm” is ignorant of the fact that kids need to be stimulated by more than scatalogical humor to actually influence their perspectives, rather than cater to their existing tastes and knowledge.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
Gilead’s future hangs on whether the Plums remain ignorant and compliant, as does the story of “The Testaments.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Often, they "are ignorant of the history" of French colonisation -- even their ban on speaking native Ivorian languages in schools, he added.
From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026
Eager to protect their own profession, male practitioners—from physicians to male midwives—portrayed women as ignorant and sure to do harm or, conversely, possessed of “dangerous” knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing ignorant
"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act I
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"Easter, 1916" by W.B. Yeats
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