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ignorant

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The level of understanding she had of Alani, and Whitaker’s desire to humanize her, made a character who could have been seen as unrelatable, ignorant or even irritating into a delightfully self-aware fan favorite.

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But her remarks were met with a stinging response from Rowling, who dismissed her as "ignorant".

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If there was one thing Daddy would say, it was that he didn’t want to raise any “dumb, ignorant children.”

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That’s a reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect — you know, the tendency of those willfully or unalterably ignorant to vastly overestimate their abilities and/or intelligence.

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Students are encouraged to despise their society and kept ignorant of anything that might make them think otherwise.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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