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What (who) is Ignoramus - definition
Ignoramus
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Ignoramus (drama); Ignoramus (disambiguation)
·noun A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce.
II. Ignoramus ·noun We are ignorant; we ignore;
- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill," or "Not found," though in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used.
ignoramus
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Ignoramus (drama); Ignoramus (disambiguation)
[??gn?'re?m?s]
¦ noun (plural ignoramuses) an ignorant or stupid person.
Origin
C16 (as the endorsement made by a grand jury on an indictment considered to be backed by insufficient evidence to bring before a petty jury): L., lit. 'we do not know' (in legal use 'we take no notice of it').
ignoramus
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Ignoramus (drama); Ignoramus (disambiguation)
n.
Sciolist, smatterer, novice, wiseacre, greenhorn, simpleton, numskull. See dunce.
Examples of use of Ignoramus
1. Because (Boris again) Blair "sucks up" to this supposed ignoramus.
2. A ‘knower of Hebrew‘ and an ignoramus were two opposites back then.
3. Mr Mugabe snootily calls him an "ignoramus" because of his humble background and lack of education.
4. Especially in foreign policy, he was an ignoramus who smugly thought that his instincts trumped experience and knowledge.
5. It takes a Hollywood ignoramus to give flesh to the argument of a radical anti–Semitic Iranian.