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
  • Is there a list of protocols that I would be marked as a real ignoramus for ignoring?
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dissenters and skeptics are derided as Flat Earthers and scientific ignoramuses.
    — Rupert Darwall, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Oscillating between a bumbling brute and an ironic ignoramus, Marvel Studios sees the God of Thunder more like the God of Blunder, kicking out the knees of the steady 2011 film in favour of single-digit IQ humour.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 6 May 2026

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