know-nothing
Example Sentences
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Who hasn’t had the experience of hearing some know-nothing proudly display his ignorance — whether in a bar, on a crowded plane or on Joe Rogan’s podcast?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
The effort always includes promotional videos, such as one this summer featuring a know-it-all who is exposed as a know-nothing because he doesn’t know where tickets are sold.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2022
Strong has a way of conveying the tight, pointed superficiality of a know-nothing execu-bro who radiates enough competence to pull a room's attention.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021
My mom, unlike Akeem, was not a know-nothing blowing her money and trying to fit in by pretending to be working class.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2021
“These know-nothing kids thinking Ali could’ve taken Joe Louis.”
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
