know-nothing
Example Sentences
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The effort always includes promotional videos, such as one this summer featuring a know-it-all who is exposed as a know-nothing because he doesn’t know where tickets are sold.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2022
It’s a movie about actors, their insecurities and their struggles with those know-nothing writers and producers, so it’s no surprise that the thespian crowd adores it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2022
But Atlanta, and its know-nothing Liberty Media ownership, seems unaware that analytics predict its five-man rotation will not have anybody with an ERA under 4.00 as everybody regresses toward previous career performance.
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2019
And then there is the deeper problem: You might be outed as a know-nothing interloper, a gawky tourist, when all many people want when they travel is to masquerade as “a local.”
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2018
“These know-nothing kids thinking Ali could’ve taken Joe Louis.”
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
