know-nothingism
- 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
But envy and know-nothingism are doubly in their way.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
