Know-nothing Definition

nōnŭthĭng
know-nothings
noun
An ignorant person; ignoramus.
Webster's New World
An anti-intellectual.
American Heritage
An agnostic.
Webster's New World
A member of a secret political party in the U.S. in the 1850s with a program of keeping out of public office anyone not a native-born American.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
know-nothing
Plural:
know-nothings

Origin of Know-nothing

  • Party members claimed to know nothing about the party when questioned.

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Know-nothing Sentence Examples

  • You know nothing about me, Rissa.

  • Even though you know nothing about him, you accept.

  • I have no desire to interfere with something about which I know nothing.

  • They'll maintain a public web site you might peruse occasionally but they'll know nothing of your group or what you're doing.

  • The Know-Nothing party was nearly destroyed by its crushing defeat in 1856 and in the next year the Democrats by a large majority elected for governor Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), who by three successive re-elections was continued in that office until the close of the Civil War.

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