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ignoramus
UK /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/ US /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/
noun 2verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
The problem is that visual ignoramuses, such as this writer, can't think of that many pictures and end up drawing question marks where a frog should be.
“The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.
noun
1
A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.
verb
1
To make such a ruling against (an indictment).
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