IGNORANT in a Sentence

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Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who triumphs.

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 Meanings and Examples of IGNORANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ignorant
 a.  lacking education or knowledge; unaware
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
2  He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the public.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  He was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  He respected learned men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer evening with a tin watering-pot painted green.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
6  For many years past, I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the visage of one damned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
7  It is probable that he, also, was disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of everything, something excessive.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
8  He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
9  No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their religious duty to intercept them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
10  He is an ignorant man, of no education.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
11  I was even ignorant of the fact that you had left my shop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
12  Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who triumphs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
13  The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to this detail.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
14  In the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
15  That pigmy kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
16  They might be ignorant of certain metaphysical necessities while knowing all the truths about the meanings of their contracts.
17  He criticized some ignorant writers who fracture the language.
18  The more a man knows, the more he see his ignorance.
19  Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
20  The aid agency continues the battle against ignorance and superstition.
21  We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.
22  By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the least.
23  Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
24  The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
25  Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
26  Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
27  Fear is a product of ignorance.
28  He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims ignorance.
29  Knowledge makes humble; ignorance makes proud.
30  Not ignorance, but the ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.