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
• Yet Wood’s piece pokes fun at her own artistic clout, not only by documenting some of her most ignorant critics but also by taking the form of a fringed throw blanket bedazzled with glass beads that coalesce into a halo around Wood’s self-portrait.
  — K. L. H. Wells, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
• Adefope is hilarious as Dag, a new hire who is blissfully ignorant of the hierarchy on set and feels free to point out compromises, hypocrisies, and other occupational hazards of franchise movies that everyone else politely ignores.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024