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How to use ignorant in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Ignorant means unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance. Example: “His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant.”

Examples of ignorant by meaning

adjectiveNot knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).

  • That night he slept the sleep of happiness, blissfully ignorant that he had placed the letters in the wrong envelopes.1921, John T. McCutcheon, The Restless Age, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 179

adjectiveIll-mannered, crude.

  • His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant.

adjectiveResulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.

  • One can never get any but a loose and ignorant notion of such things except by experience.1916, Mark Twain, chapter 8, in Albert Paine, editor, The Mysterious Stranger, New York: Harper & Bros., page 112

More sentences with ignorant

  • I put him down as ignorant, but then discovered he is, in fact, a university professor!From the entry put down as
  • Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.From the entry rescue
  • She tried to enlighten them about the rules of the program, but they remained belligerently and self-righteously ignorant.From the entry enlighten
  • His loudly verbalized beliefs marked him as an ignorant bore.From the entry mark as
  • The populace despised their ignorant leader.From the entry populace
  • Chadwick cites this as an example of how credulous and ignorant rustic communities were in those days.2021 January 5, Charles Moore, “Heartening news from the NHS front line finally gives us something to clap about”, in The Telegraph. From the entry anti-vaxxery
  • People often discriminate against others who are stupid, ignorant, rude, smally, drunk, drug addled, violent, or criminals.2020, Jon Robins, Ian Tinny, Bernie Sanders, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro & Other Socialists, page 383. From the entry stupidism
  • They'll stand to be saddled and, long as nobody does anything ignorant, they're not likely to throw.2014, Aaron Gwyn, Wynne's War: A Novel, page 114. From the entry gunbroke
  • Ignorant about vomiting before the incident, I was now terrified of it.2011 July 15, Dakshana Bascaramurty, “I had never vomited. Ever.”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry emetophobia
  • And once he opens that ignorant spithole of his - well all doubt is removed.2007 July 17, Electrician, “Vick The Dick II”, in alt.sports.football.pro.atl-falcons (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022. From the entry spithole
  • Anyone seen as being antipot is now considered to be ignorant, oppressive, and hypocritical.2003, Timmen L. Cermak, Marijuana: what's a parent to believe?, page 72. From the entry antipot
  • Ukrainian became the language of the poor, the ignorant, and the backward.2000, Ania Savage, “Birth of an Independent Nation”, in Return to Ukraine (Eastern European Studies; 12), College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M…. From the entry babusia
  • We had formed a conspiracy against an unpopular and ignorant teacher.1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 163. From the entry moving spirit
  • This category was further subdivided into those vincibly ignorant and those invincibly ignorant.1996, James A. Donahue, M. Theresa Moser, Religion, ethics & the common good, page 112. From the entry vincibly
  • We didn’t let on that we were ignorant enough not to know what she was talking about.1993 November, Hilda Hollingsworth, chapter 5, in Places of Greater Safety, Berkeley, Calif.: Zenobia Press, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry titfer
  • At that point, I couldn't help wondering how many ignorant, homophobic and outing-phobic viewers recoiled in horror.1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8. From the entry pussyfooted
  • An even more important reason is that our generation is not only normally ignorant but abnormally so.1984, Robert Charles Sproul, John Henry Gerstner, Arthur Lindsley, Classical Apologetics, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry normally
  • The ignorant self-opinionated sod-minded suet-brained ham-faced mealy-mouthed streptococcus-ridden gang of natural gobdaws!1968, Myles Na Gopaleen, The Best of Myles: A Selection from ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’, MacGibbon and Kee, page 81. From the entry gobdaw
  • "They want a man who will bunko the ignorant patients and get the money."1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 275. From the entry bunco
  • But the lady seemed set here, and Marrabel, ignorant of her intentions, made his first bad move.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry jerky
  • “Cold” and “emotionless” are simply acephobic and ignorant.2015 July 5, George Norman, “Reclaiming celibacy”, in The Yorker, University of York, page 16. From the entry acephobic
  • A system that suppresses dissent is fault-intolerant, ignorant and fragile.2013 June 28, Charles Hugh Smith, Why Centralization Leads to Collapse. From the entry dissent
  • Is there an ignorant ‘I’ and an elusive ‘I’?2011, Michael Gluckman, Making Your Wisdom Come Alive: A Guide to the Source of Your Wisdom and Joy, Light Up Your Life, →ISBN. From the entry i
  • Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.2011, Paul Oppenheimer, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology, page 46. From the entry lancing
  • Entering by a side door, one young woman patently ignorant of the place’s tainted past, glanced around bewilderedly.2010 May 19, Ruth La Ferla, “Where God and the Devil Once Lived”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Jul 2011. From the entry bewilderedly
  • Two days out of every three, the prisoners were guarded by a gang of ignorant and cruelsome Negroes.2008, David J. Emmick, Defending the Wilderness. From the entry cruelsome
  • I think this is just Walker's way of reiterating the often-stated stereotype of the African as an ignorant "superstitionist".2003, Muyiwa Falaiye, African Spirit and Black Nationalism, →ISBN. From the entry superstitionist
  • I can elaborate on this but I'm too lazy to spend too much time to 'layan' ignorant morons like you.2002 August 1, Ahmad Sayuthi, “PAS polygamist: Why I took another wife in Cambodia”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet). From the entry layan
  • You are being exceptionally crude and ignorant, and need to put your brain to work before you engage you mouth (keyboard).1998 April 21, Speerjf, “Marine Corps/Army question”, in alt.folklore.military (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jun 2026. From the entry chickenpoop
  • The vincibly ignorant were those people who had had an opportunity to hear the gospel but had rejected it.1996, James A. Donahue, M. Theresa Moser, Religion, ethics & the common good, page 112. From the entry vincibly
  • It is in this context of Irishphobia that the racist caricature of the drunken, violent, ignorant Paddy was established.1996, Pierre L. Van Den Berghe, Ernest Cashmore, Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, page 182. From the entry Irishphobia
  • Choosing to be ignorant is choosing to be nicey-nicey.1988, Arlene Raven, Cassandra L. Langer, Joanna Frueh, Feminist Art Criticism: an Anthology, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry nicey-nicey
  • The white feminist and white gay movement have willed themselves ignorant of black feminist and black gay experiences.1986, Daniel Garrett, “Creating Ourselves: An Open Letter”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 102. From the entry will
  • They were absolutely ignorant of what conscience is.1984, “Chapter 4. The Senses”, in George F. Dole, transl., The Universal Human and Soul-Body Interaction, Paulist Press, translation of…. From the entry muci
  • Jackeen in the city always meant a cunning, loudmouthed, ignorant youth: while Gurrier was a term of approbation.1983, Benedict Kiely, compiler, Dublin (Small Oxford Books), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry gurrier
  • Perhaps – if it is a real word – it comes from Golf, a language of which we are completely ignorant."Three Score and Ten" by Angela Thirkell, Alfred A Knopf (1961), p. 62. From the entry stonkered
  • Many of them come from distant places and although they speak your tongue they are ignorant of your customs.1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 23, in Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 2, page 200. From the entry tongue

Meaning of ignorant

  1. adjective Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
  2. adjective Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).
  3. adjective Ill-mannered, crude.

Full definition of ignorant

Questions about ignorant in a sentence

How do you use ignorant in a sentence?
Ignorant is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant.”
What is a short sentence with ignorant?
“The populace despised their ignorant leader.”
What does ignorant mean?
Ignorant means unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.

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