Example sentences for: ignorant

How can you use “ignorant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • More egregious are errors committed because the writer or speaker is ignorant of the facts.

  • The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to change: the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training in elite specialties like neurosurgery still promotes a specific kind of cowboy bravado, which encourages women to bail out for gynecology.

  • Reflecting the prejudices of the intelligentsia, Morris in his book and in interviews has described Reagan as "ignorant," an "airhead," and a "yahoo."

  • Testifying before a congressional committee in 1872, Alabama Democrat William M. Lowe explained, "A carpetbagger is generally understood to be a man who comes here for office sake, of an ignorant or bad character, and who seeks to array the negroes against the whites."

  • Recently Americanizing a British text using the American spelling checker in my Framework III program, I discovered that the program is ignorant of American preferred spellings, like labeled vs labelled, traveler vs traveller, though it catches travelling . What boots it to point out that many Americans are likewise ignorant of those “preferences”?


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