ignorant
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Before he entered politics, Wilson would describe the American people as “selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn” and “foolish.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
She turns up in his hometown and, with nowhere else to stay, helps herself to his villa while Matteo gallivants around the States, blissfully ignorant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
On Friday morning ap Iorwerth was asked on BBC Radio Wales if his reference to "ignorance", which was trailed ahead of his speech, meant he was suggesting Reform voters were ignorant.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 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
Faxe confirmed what Goss had said, that the matter of the question could be one of which the Foretellers were perfectly ignorant.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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"Easter, 1916" by W.B. Yeats
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