adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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as
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In our North London fastness we are as ignorant as snowflakes of such matters.
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I suspect most girls now are as ignorant as I was then, because the number of victims increases steadily.
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Churchill was a sort of Anglican but was as ignorant about clergymen as Lloyd George.
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What is so fascinating is that maybe the medieval artists were just as ignorant of Latin.
blissfully
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I was blissfully ignorant of the whole collapse.
so
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Truly, I was so ignorant , I would have.
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Why was the church so ignorant of her own men and women?
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She is so ignorant of life, she might be a visitor from Mars.
totally
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I mean, is the fool totally ignorant ?
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He was, for example, totally ignorant of the atomic bomb project.
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More important, he has met an ideal of which his regime was totally ignorant: mercy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a crude and ignorant man
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I'm very ignorant about politics.
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I didn't like to ask him to explain more clearly because I didn't want to appear ignorant .
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That was an ignorant joke!
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There are still doctors who are ignorant of patients' rights, or who try to deny them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But political historians are often rather ignorant of economics.
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Either she was woefully ignorant , or wilfully obtuse.
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My inquiries reveal that most of these are caused by exercise programmes devised by ignorant charlatans feeding off our need for health.
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Or was he just pretending to be ignorant ?
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The thinking seems to be that many savers are too ignorant or lazy to shop around.
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These research subjects are presumed to be ignorant and vulnerable groups in society and almost always include students.