ignorant
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Ignorant of what caused the disease and how it was spread, during the 1916 crisis New York City administrators killed thousands of stray dogs and cats and blasted sidewalks with water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
Former Wales captain and current Wales Under-18s head coach Siwan Lillicrap, external writing on X: "I can't believe my eyes - shame on you @neathrfc! Ignorant, unacceptable and inappropriate."
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025
Ignorant of what is happening underwater, many river engineers continue to make bad situations worse by sticking with conventional methods of trying to hold back floods.
From Science Magazine • May 13, 2021
John Adams saw the America that was to come as part of a providential design “for the Illumination of the Ignorant and the Emancipation of the slavish Part of Mankind all over the Earth.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2018
Ignorant as I knew I was, I trusted myself more than I trusted her.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Vocabulary lists containing ignorant
"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act I
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"Easter, 1916" by W.B. Yeats
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