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
• 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
• People who say change is good are ignorant of a great root beer snow cone.
  — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Don’t be part of the problem, the ignorant, the willingly blind.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• People who say change is good are ignorant of a great root beer snow cone.
  — Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2014
• 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
• 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
• Many doctors were ignorant of morphine or scared to use it.
  — CBS News, 26 Dec. 2019
• Poverty and ignorant employers lead to anger, and the anger leads to sickness.
  — Lisa Marie Basile, SELF, 16 Oct. 2019
• Perhaps they were led by a leader who was salary ignorant.
  — Amy Spurling, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• 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
• An ignorant person could read a book or ask somebody who knows.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2022
• 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
• All you ignorant people are the reason why mental health still has this huge stigma around it!
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Fasting is a shield, so the one who fasts should avoid obscene speech and ignorant behavior.
  — Eslah Attar, National Geographic, 12 June 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
• 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
• Life is way too short to be ignorant of the promise of something that is helping people worldwide.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• Shu has the carry potential that shouldn’t be ignorant though.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2022
• Stupid and ignorant are different, and those people are not stupid.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 16 May 2021
• In his view, there are people who agree with his view of history and people who are ignorant.
  — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 19 Aug. 2017
• Those sorts of critiques are short-sighted and, frankly, ignorant.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
• Our server was able to explain the dishes to us without making us feel ignorant.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 May 2017
• 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
• Being ignorant or lying about it is just not an excuse.
  — Fox News, 4 May 2018
• Even if some of them are too ignorant to realize what antifa truly stands for.
  — Jon Passantino, Bob Ortega and Majlie De Puy Kamp, CNN, 4 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2024