7 sentences with 'ignorant'

Example sentences and phrases with the word ignorant and other words derived from it.

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« Slaveholders, he argued, looked after the ignorant - in Fitzhugh's argument, the Southern slaves. »
« David Hume also expressed enormous contempt for the common people, who were ignorant and susceptible to superstition. »
« Thus, a vulnerable and, in medical terms, ignorant population fell victim to the virulence of the Black Death from 1348 to 1351. »
« Fitzhugh argued that laissez-faire capitalism, as celebrated by Adam Smith, only benefited the quick and clever, leaving the ignorant at a huge disadvantage. »
« The majority's aversion to Roman Catholicism (the predominant religion in Mexico) and widespread belief in American racial superiority led them to regard Mexicans as dishonest, ignorant and backward. »
« Enthusiasm for the war was fuelled by the widespread belief that Mexico was a weak and impoverished country and that the Mexican people, perceived as ignorant, lazy and controlled by a corrupt Roman Catholic clergy, would be easy to defeat. »
« While most people - by definition, peasants - remained illiterate and largely ignorant of the world beyond their own villages, there was at least an undercurrent of genuine intellectual curiosity and rigorous scholarship spreading in the cities, monasteries and convents of the High Middle Ages. »

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