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- noun Plural form of
ignoramus .
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Examples
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In his earlier books, McEwan had a tendency to sharply set aside rogues from do-gooders, the cruel ignoramuses from the liberal humanitarians, when in fact such distinctions rarely hold.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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In his earlier books, McEwan had a tendency to sharply set aside rogues from do-gooders, the cruel ignoramuses from the liberal humanitarians, when in fact such distinctions rarely hold.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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In his earlier books, McEwan had a tendency to sharply set aside rogues from do-gooders, the cruel ignoramuses from the liberal humanitarians, when in fact such distinctions rarely hold.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
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Then there was Miss Emily Penton's history class, in which she got to hear that slavery actually civilized blacks, that the black officeholders during Reconstruction were "ignoramuses," that the Ku Klux Klan was founded to defend white womanhood.
Through a Lens, Darkly Margolick, David 2007
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We are all "ignoramuses" more or less -- and cannot reproach one another.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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The Victoria Police R still in cultural as well as operational denial despite a decade of change + having a new Commissioner since March, 2009 who is ostensibly expecting continued improvement from a force of "ignoramuses" and "dills" - as they were described recently by the Police Association (union) secretary, Greg Davies - despite many being in the force for a kind of holiday at taxpayers 'expense.
WN.com - Articles related to Kapil Dev offers to bring back Indian immigrant's ashes from Australia 2010
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The Victoria Police R still in cultural as well as operational denial despite a decade of change + having a new Commissioner since March, 2009 who is ostensibly expecting continued improvement from a force of "ignoramuses" and "dills" - as they were described recently by the Police Association (union) secretary, Greg Davies - despite many being in the force for a kind of holiday at taxpayers 'expense.
WN.com - Articles related to Hughes can be Australia's Virender Sehwag: Ponting 2010
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The Victoria Police R still in cultural as well as operational denial despite a decade of change + having a new Commissioner since March, 2009 who is ostensibly expecting continued improvement from a force of "ignoramuses" and "dills" - as they were described recently by the Police Association
WN.com - Articles related to Hughes can be Australia's Virender Sehwag: Ponting 2010
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Commissioner since March, 2009 who is ostensibly expecting continued improvement from a force of "ignoramuses" and "dills" - as they were described recently by the Police Association
WN.com - Articles related to Kapil Dev offers to bring back Indian immigrant's ashes from Australia 2010
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