ignoramus

Fauci probably "thinks I am an ignoramus," Giuliani told The Post.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2020

The term ignoramus was written on bills of indictment when the evidence presented seemed insufficient to justify prosecution.

From Fox News ● Mar. 30, 2020

At the risk of sounding like a complete ignoramus, I learned several new words and a term which is always fun: macher, shtetl, and work blue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2019

During one editing session, something became clear to me: This adult, successful journalist was a complete ignoramus on most matters that happened to be unrelated to his field of expertise.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2018

That has continued to be the central complaint against rhetoric ever since: that it gives the plausible ignoramus or the self- interested dissembler—the knave or the fool—power over the good and the wise.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

And so you get blowhards and sycophants, egoists and ignoramuses mixed in among those just striving to be dedicated public servants.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022

Maudlin also vigorously defends philosophy against ignoramuses who ask, Why do we need philosophy?

From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2018

Ergo, very smart people can be ignoramuses about an array of subjects, and even if they diligently work to become informed, they can still make unwise choices.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2017

This exercise has convinced me we ought to reserve the phrase “anti-vaxxer” for that small group of committed, loud-mouthed ignoramuses who try to spread their pernicious, conspiratorial nonsense to innocent parents and children.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2015

“Why? They wouldn’t any more be ignoramuses than an elephant is. Or a bird is. Or a tree is,” Teddy said.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger