How to Use ignorant in a Sentence

ignorant

adjective

• She was ignorant about the dangers of the drug.
• He is an ignorant old racist.
• It was an ignorant mistake.
• Let those with the ignorant comments bury their heads in shame.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 7 Apr. 2021
• Don’t be part of the problem, the ignorant, the willingly blind.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• Their hope is that at least no one seeing the account can claim to be ignorant of the scale of the issue.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2022
• Now, this girl is young and naive and her ignorant words don't have the power to hurt anyone in this case.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2022
• Some whites were ignorant of how black millionaires had thrived, a few of them since the 1870s.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
• People who say change is good are ignorant of a great root beer snow cone.
  — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• The British public was utterly ignorant of birdlife at the start of the campaign.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• By lying to her about his own past, Michael has kept her ignorant and, at least in his eyes, pure.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
• People who say change is good are ignorant of a great root beer snow cone.
  — Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2014
• Like many of the young Taliban fighters, was ignorant of 9/11.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
• One of the things that people are surprised to find out about me is that my favorite hardcore is the messy and ignorant type.
  — Shawn Reynaldo, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
• Poverty and ignorant employers lead to anger, and the anger leads to sickness.
  — Lisa Marie Basile, SELF, 16 Oct. 2019
• But part of that is to reward those businesses that do it right, and punish the ignorant.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
• And f--- you to the ignorant right wing extremists who want my daughter to have fewer rights than what I was born with.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
• When our visitors opened the fridge, half of them were like me: Soma ignorant.
  — Burt Helm, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Joy can feel extravagant, like the purview of the privileged and the ignorant alone.
  — Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
• What’s easy to overlook or be ignorant to is the history of what someone’s been through.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
• That's the kind of ignorant question that this brave president has to put up with from the fake news media every day.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 16 Aug. 2020
• Many doctors were ignorant of morphine or scared to use it.
  — CBS News, 26 Dec. 2019
• Those sorts of critiques are short-sighted and, frankly, ignorant.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
• Even worse, they were kept ignorant of their emancipation for over two and a half years.
  — Marcia L. Fudge, Fortune, 19 June 2020
• Those who bleat about starters not pitching deep into games are ignorant of how much baseball has changed in the past few years.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• An ignorant person could read a book or ask somebody who knows.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2022
• Perhaps they were led by a leader who was salary ignorant.
  — Amy Spurling, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• Fasting is a shield, so the one who fasts should avoid obscene speech and ignorant behavior.
  — Eslah Attar, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Watching Shannon from afar as the ignorant bliss of her perfect first date with Sayid was shattered by the news of Boone’s fate felt downright traumatic and voyeuristic.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• Katie is, per her backstory, ignorant of what’s going on; Noel is a dim-bulb straight man, a bruiser with a good heart and a perpetually glazed look on his face.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024