know-nothing
无知者无畏,无知的人,无知,无所不知
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Definitions
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- : an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- : an agnostic.
- : U.S. History. a member of a political party prominent from 1853 to 1856, whose aim was to keep control of the government in the hands of native-born citizens: so called because members originally professed ignorance of the party's activities.
- : a person whose anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, and other political attitudes recall the Know-Nothings.
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- : grossly ignorant; totally uninformed.
- : agnostic.
- : of or relating to the Know-Nothings.
- : of or relating to a political know-nothing.
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Examples
In the meantime, he should just accept that the holdup has nothing to do with his politics.
I don't know why or who's doing it, but it's the legacy…and it's a legacy that is so important to the culture.
They know they will face either a swift backlash or deafening silence.
What they say is, ‘We don’t approve of violence, but you know what?
No one seems to know who that is—or why they would want to do such a thing.
She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.
We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
It seems very strange that I shall actually know Liszt at last, after hearing of him so many years.