as in idiot
a stupid person
only an ignoramus would be foiled by the building's security system
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No one is asking him to embrace the full Ginsburg and declare himself a disrespectful ignoramus.
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James Freeman, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
Is there a list of protocols that I would be marked as a real ignoramus for ignoring?
—Washington Post, 28 June 2021
Could Field & Stream take a hunting know-nothing, a gun ignoramus-in other words, someone like me—and send her on one of the toughest hunts in North America?
—Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
But his vocabulary infuriated some word nerds who say irregardless is an invention employed by ignoramuses.
—Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2019
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James Freeman, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
Is there a list of protocols that I would be marked as a real ignoramus for ignoring?
—Washington Post, 28 June 2021
Could Field & Stream take a hunting know-nothing, a gun ignoramus-in other words, someone like me—and send her on one of the toughest hunts in North America?
—Susan Casey, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2020
But his vocabulary infuriated some word nerds who say irregardless is an invention employed by ignoramuses.
—Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2019
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“Ignoramus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ignoramus. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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