How to Use ignoramus in a Sentence

ignoramus

noun

• I can't believe they let an ignoramus like that run the company.
• Trump is a proud ignoramus who speaks with the confidence of an expert.
  — Jamil Smith, Esquire, 22 June 2017
• But that doesn't mean his staffers are iGnoramuses as well.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• There was a time when Jupiter was the king of the gods, and any man who doubted his puissance was ipso facto a barbarian and an ignoramus.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• Murray got the worse of it, but at minimum, I’m painted as a total ignoramus, right?
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 9 Apr. 2018
• By all accounts, Ryan and McConnell and the people closest to them see the president as a reckless ignoramus.
  — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 8 Sep. 2017
• The part of the problem of the president has is his dealing with ignoramuses spoken inside his party and outside of his party and some whom are dressed up as lawyers.
  — Fox News, 4 May 2018
• On the left, a lot of people applauded the notion of a tech genius running for office, especially in the wake of an ignoramus like Donald Trump.
  — Nick Bilton, vanityfair.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• And the universities, like the media before them, will walk right into the trap, while the Left rejects potential voters as deplorable ignoramuses.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 13 July 2017
• The other reason, of course, is that Trump is an ignoramus who could never defend its merits against criticism, or probably even outline its most basic features.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2017
• Dissenters and skeptics are derided as Flat Earthers and scientific ignoramuses.
  — Rupert Darwall, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017

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