know-nothing
noun
an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
know-nothingism
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a word derived from
know-nothing.
Example Sentences
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In other words, know-nothingism, now repackaged as know-everythingism.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023
And that’s what we’ll become if modern know-nothingism prevails.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
Several thoughtful writers have already laid bare the slapdash know-nothingism of today’s mod-ish atheism, but Spencer’s not beating a dead horse—he’s beating a live one, in the hope that Nietzsche might rush to embrace it.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2014
But it's in her chapter on creativity — not a quality always associated with the data-crunching business of science — that she makes her most compelling case against the willful know-nothingism that plagues public debate.
From Time ● Sep. 28, 2011
Above all, know-nothingism pervades all around Scott, who is himself its grand master, and it nestles there par excellence in more than one way.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
