know-nothing

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Recent Examples of know-nothing Then there are those who rage against their children’s accomplishments, clinging to the hierarchy agreed upon when the child was a helpless know-nothing. Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025 Lewis’s superficial attack abets the know-nothing Trump Administration, which spurns cooperative allies and rational arrangements. Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025 The secret is that Spike’s know-nothing naivete encourages us to see the world through the eyes of someone who’s new to every part of it. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 18 June 2025 The first half hour is filled with the weirdly neutral techno jargon of soldiers jabbering code words into their headphones to what I (as a know-nothing) am tempted to call Mission Control. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025 Even as Republicans embrace him as an iconoclast, Democrats and other critics have lambasted Kennedy as a know-nothing without the scientific or bureaucratic experience to do the job effectively. Vox Staff, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for know-nothing
Noun
  • Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Know-nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/know-nothing. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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