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Another word for know-nothing

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Noun
      1. Unable to read and write.
      2. Having little or no formal education.
      3. Marked by inferiority to an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature:
      1. A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.
      2. Earth or soil.
      3. A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
      1. A person who is considered foolish or stupid.
      2. A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
    See also:

    moron

    fool

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Sentence Examples

  • The Know-Nothing party was nearly destroyed by its crushing defeat in 1856 and in the next year the Democrats by a large majority elected for governor Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), who by three successive re-elections was continued in that office until the close of the Civil War.

  • In the manifesto the three ministers asserted that " from the peculiarity of its geographical position, and the considerations attendant upon it, Cuba is as necessary to the North American republic as any of its present members "; spoke of the danger to the United States of an insurrection in Cuba; asserted that " we should be recreant to our duty, be unworthy ingly on his return from England in 1856 he was nominated by the Democrats as a compromise candidate for president, and was elected, receiving 174 electoral votes to 114 for John C. Fremont, Republican, and 8 for Millard Fillmore, American or " Know-Nothing."

  • Even though you know nothing about him, you accept.

  • I have no desire to interfere with something about which I know nothing.

  • They'll maintain a public web site you might peruse occasionally but they'll know nothing of your group or what you're doing.

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